Newport Rising
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title:
Newport Rising
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The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rising in Wales, by Chartists whose demands included democracy and the right to vote with a secret ballot. On Monday 4 November 1839, approximately 4,000 Chartist sympathisers, under the leadership of John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire. En route, some Newport chartists were arrested by police and held prisoner at the Westgate Hotel in central Newport. Chartists from industrial towns outside of Newport, including many coal-m
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1839 pro-democracy revolt by Chartists in Newport, Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Rising
date created:
2004-12-14T19:55:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T10:40:22Z
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