Peterloo Massacre
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peterloo-massacre-178-17910962
title:
Peterloo Massacre
text:
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, there was an acute economic slump, accompanied by chronic unemployment and harvest failure due to the Year Without a Summer, and worsened by the Corn Laws, which kept
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1819 killing by British troops in Manchester
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
date created:
2002-07-29T04:57:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T23:55:24Z
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13
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16