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1 online resource (50 pages). |
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The Regency Period anthology |
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The Regency Period anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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Original document: Book. |
| Summary |
The Peterloo Massacre occurred in Manchester, England on August 16, 1819. A crowd of between 60,000 and 80,000 people had gathered to hear the famous and radical orator Henry Hunt, who was demanding reforms in Parliamentary representation. Though the crowd was peaceful, tensions were high, and the calvary who were on-hand to police the situation charged into the crowd with their sabres drawn, apparently without provocation. Between 400 and 700 people were injured and various accounts say that between 11 and 15 people were killed, many of them women and children. The event was given the name Peterloo in ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo that had taken place several years earlier during the Napoleonic War. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819.
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