Siege of Sidney Street
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siege-of-sidney-street-176-1263708
title:
Siege of Sidney Street
text:
The siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, a key
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1911 siege in the East End of London, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sidney_Street
date created:
2004-04-16T01:56:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:33:48Z
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