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	Peterloo massacre - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre.
		A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and for parliamentary reform.
		The name Peterloo, later given the incident, was suggested by the name Waterloo.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-peterloo.html (318 words)

	John Boughton
		Peterloo effectively marked the end of the first phase of working-class radical protest.
		Reforming opinion seized on the exclusion of Queen Caroline from the coronation of her estranged husband, George IV, in 1820 as a means of embarrassing a reactionary government and culpable monarchy but the next major upsurge of protest did not occur until 1829.
		An instigator of the Spa Fields riot in 1816 and an organizer of protests after Peterloo, Thistlewood led the attempt to assassinate the Cabinet in Cato Street, 1820 but he and four others were arrested before the attack on the evidence of a government spy and executed for high treason.
	faculty.goucher.edu /history231/boughton_Peterloo.htm (1780 words)

	Humanities Research - Museums of the Future Part 1
		Instantaneously British public opinion was polarised by the massacre of 'Peterloo' - a term coined by a radical journalist that cleverly combined the location with the fact that the meeting had taken place on the fourth anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.
		Peterloo did not pass beyond the realm of living memory until late in the century.
		It was no accident that Peterloo commenced with the command to the Yeomanry Cavalry to 'have at their banners', and, as one of the victims, Samuel Bamford, vividly recalled, the contest for them continued throughout that fateful day in 1819.
	www.anu.edu.au /hrc/publications/hr/issue1_2001/article06.htm (3275 words)

	Peterloo
		In the battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo; in the Peterloo Massacre the military defeated the working class at Saint Peter’s field.
		Everyone who was involved in The Peterloo Massacre did something wrong, but I think the main person who should take responsibility for causing the massacre to end in bloodshed was Henry Hunt.
		During the Peterloo Massacre William Hulton instructed Joseph Nadin to arrest Henry Hunt and the other leaders of the demonstration.
	project1.caryacademy.org /1851/peterloo.htm (1177 words)

	Annotated Bibliography--The Peterloo Massacre
		The media immediately printed accounts of the “Horrid Massacres at Manchester.” The organizers were charged with “assembling with unlawful banners at an unlawful meeting for the purpose of exciting discontent,” and for this, the government justified that 11 deserved to die having been shot, sabred, and trampled.
		The Peterloo Massacre is an example of a rash, harsh government forcefully attempting to remove a problem instead of addressing the issues at hand.
		The pages devoted to the Peterloo Massacre contain information of the years and events surrounding 1819, a detailed description of the gathering at St. Peter’s Field, including a map of the area, eye-witness accounts, contemporary reactions, and consequences of the massacre.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/fall2003/f03-2800/messages/102.html (809 words)

	Peterloo Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Wroe of the Manchester Observer coined the phrase "Peterloo Massacre" to describe the event (in ironic reference to Waterloo).
		The widespread public anger at the massacre swelled the support of the reform movement from which the Chartists would eventually emerge.
		The thirteenth of the Sharpe television films, Sharpe's Justice, is loosely based on the Peterloo Massacre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peterloo_Massacre (820 words)

	genocide - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Workers attempted to organize to force better conditions, but without protection against dismissal, their efforts were sporadic and violent.
		Srebrenica was the site of a massacre that occurred during the civil war that erupted in 1992 between Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), Croats, and Serbs...
		A special investigating committee established by the House of Representatives reported on Dec. 22, 1952, that it was the Russians who were guilty of the Katyn Forest massacre of 1940.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=genocide&pg=12&grp=art (387 words)

	Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League & the Reform Movement in Manchester
		After ten minutes of havoc and slaughter, the field was deserted except for the broken hustings platform, bodies of the dead, wounded and dying.
		After news of the massacre spread across Britain, local authorities clamped down on all public meetings, in breech of all laws to the contrary, and took severe measures to ensure public order.
		Political reform was in the air and the people of Manchester and the numerous spinning and weaving towns surrounding it, were at the vanguard of the movement.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/victorian/Victorian2.html (1227 words)

	John Edward Taylor, Hugh Birley, Archibald Prentice and other Manchester Politicians and Social Reformers
		Prentice was present at the Peterloo Massacre but had left St Peters Field when the military charge against the crowd occurred.
		Like other members of the group he argued for an independent inquiry into the Peterloo Massacre, although as far as is known he did not witness the tragedy.
		Hugh Birley continued to live in Manchester after the Peterloo Massacre but was scorned by the social reformers for his reactionary views and politics.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/politicians8.html (1454 words)

	The Mediadrome - History - Peterloo Massacre
		The repression raised national outrage and the cause of reform stopped being the cry of fringe radicals and became a popular goal.
		Samuel Bamford was present at the Manchester protest that became known as "Peterloo".
		Amongst the meetings for reform held in the early part of the summer of 1819 were the one which took place on Spa Fields, London, at which Mr.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/first_person/peterloo_massacre.htm (1057 words)

	Where's Peterloo, famous for the Peterloo massacre? in The AnswerBank: History
		The massacre was in St Peter's Fields Manchester, on 16 August 1819.
		The name Peterloo was coined in an analogy with the recent battle of Waterloo - in the same way as 'gate' is tagged on to any public scandal (Whitewatergate, Camillagate) to refer to the infamous Watergate of President Nixon's administration.
		Thomas Chadwick, a Rochdale mill-owner, described the massacre as: 'An inhuman outrage committed on an unarmed, peaceful assembly.' The government completely endorsed the magistrates' actions and said it was an illegal meeting.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /article2582.html (587 words)

	Carl's Cam: The Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, 1819.
		Peterloo, from the name of the field where it took place and the location of the troops' last significant action (Waterloo).
		Massacre, because the effects of sending a thousand cavalry into an unarmed crowd in a confined space could have been foreseen.
		The Right to Vote in the UK In 1819, at the time of Peterloo, only about 1.5% of the adult population were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections.
	www.carlscam.com /event/peterloo.htm (1113 words)

	Peterloo: murder to behead workers' movement\|11Dec04\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Peterloo, a demonstration for the vote and democratic rights which took place at St Peter’s Field Manchester on Monday 16 August 1819, is a landmark event in British working class history.
		For some weeks before Peterloo organised groups from the communities surrounding Manchester had met in the early morning or late at night to drill and prepare themselves for the demonstration.
		In effect, as historian E P Thompson has noted, they were “merchants, publicans and shopkeepers on horseback”, and their attack on those who sought reform was one of class hatred.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=4939 (864 words)

	Peterloo Massacre
		James Wroe was at the meeting and he described the attack on the crowd in the next edition of the Manchester Observer.
		Moderate reformers in Manchester were appalled by the decisions of the magistrates and the behaviour of the soldiers.
		After the Peterloo Massacre Viscount Sidmouth, the Home Secretary, sent a letter of congratulations to the Manchester magistrates for the action they had taken.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRpeterloo.htm (1718 words)

	Peterloo - SkyscraperCity
		The Peterloo Massacre took place on 16th August 1819 and was given the name by a witness who had fought at Waterloo a few years earlier because St Peter's Fields strongly resembled a battlefield with dead and injured people lying everywhere after the massacre had taken place.
		For 150 years after the massacre the sight of mounted uniforms in Manchester was sufficient to cause intense public unease.
		Many factions were present at Peterloo that day but it was organised by a group (Mcr Patriotic Union Society) whose main motivations were parlimentary reform and the repealing of the corn laws so there was a historical continuity to putting the Free Trade Hall where they did.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=318925 (2165 words)

	peterloo - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Peterloo At the end of 1818 there was a resurgence...which led indirectly to the tragedy of Peterloo.
		The Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819, in which...intellectual feminist writing, ignited by Peterloo and made national and respectable by...
		The Peterloo massacre occurred in Manchester in 1819, and the city has played a prominent role in liberal reform movements.
	www.questia.com /search/peterloo (1565 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Peterloo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and for parliamentary
		Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo massacre.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Peterloo" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Peterloo (340 words)

	The Peterloo Massacre
		They began to add their voices to those of the expanding middle class, who were already clamouring for reform of what up to now had been a rich man's club - and the rich were not keen on the idea at all.
		"The massacre of the unoffending inhabitants of Manchester, on the 16th of August, by the Yeomanry Cavalry and Police at the instigation of the Magistrates, should be the daily theme of the Press until the murderers are brought to justice.
		Captain Nadin and his banditti of Police, are hourly engaged to plunder and ill-use the peaceable inhabitants; whilst every appeal from those repeated assaults to the Magistrates for redress, is treated by them with derision and insult.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /peterloo.htm (1699 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Livingstone compares poll tax riots to China massacre
		When it was pointed out that the Metropolitan Police had not shot or killed anyone during the poll tax riot in London in March 1990, he suggested the comparison should be put into a longer context.
		There is no such thing as one country with a perfect record." In the Peterloo Massacre, the local militia waded into a crowd of radicals campaigning for universal suffrage on St Peter's Field, Manchester, in 1819, killing 11 and injuring 400.
		President Jacques Chirac of France said in 2004 it was "another time" when he sought to justify his support for the lifting of the EU arms embargo on China, imposed immediately after the killings.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/10/wken10.xml (870 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Peterloo Massacre
		The aftermath of the massacre involved denunciations of the radicals by the same people who had caused the carnage and the rounding-up of radical leaders in an attempt to justify the actions of the Yeomanry and the army.
		Peterloo was a word coined soon after the event by The Manchester Observer,
		In the months following the massacre a general crackdown on radicals and the friends of reform took place; the Cato Street conspiracy was fomented then “uncovered”, the Queen Caroline affair filled the newspapers, and in Scotland Lord Sidmouth’s
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=856 (483 words)

	Glencoe Massacre of - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Glencoe, Massacre of, a massacre, ordered for political reasons, against the MacDonald clan of Glencoe, Scotland, by soldiers under...
		This letter contains the order that began the massacre of the MacDonalds by the Campbells, a particularly unsavoury incident in Scottish history....
		Those who would not swear allegiance to the new monarchs were called non-jurors or Jacobites—Jacobus being Latin for James.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Glencoe_Massacre_of.html (101 words)

	Suchmaschine
		Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819 was the result of a cavalry charge into the crowd at a public meeting at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, England.
		Some carried banners with texts like "No Corn Laws", "Annual Parliaments", "Universal suffrage" and "Vote By Ballot." The main reason for their arguements in these factors were due to the corruption and deceit caused by parliament and Rotten Boroughs.
		Marlow, Joyce, The Peterloo massacre, London : Rapp and Whiting, (1969), ISBN 0853911223
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Peterloo_Massacre (916 words)

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		Peterloo:the massacre and Its Background : The massacre and Its Background
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	The History of England - The Peterloo Massacre
		As the Yeomanry attempted to obey the order, they were surrounded by the 'mob', and the Hussars were sent in to help them, and in the general panic which followed, eleven people were killed and about five hundred injured.
		The 'massacre' aroused great public indignation, but the government of the day stood by the magistrates and passed a new law, called the Six Acts, in 1819, to control future agitation.
		The trial and execution of Thistlewood constituted the final act of a long succession of confrontation between government and desperate protestors, but the general opinion was that the government had gone too far in applauding 'Peterloo' and passing the Six Acts.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/PeterlooMassacre.htm (564 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819
		Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819
		Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819
		The "Peterloo Massacre" was followed by ten years of very reaction government, with restrictions on the press and other repressive legislation.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1819bamford.html (1347 words)

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