Many of the participants drank themselves to death while pillaging the distillery of Thomas Langdale on a day nicknamed Black Wednesday.
Many of the participants drank themselves to death while pillaging the distillery of Thomas Langdale on a day nicknamed Black Wednesday. The national bank was twice attacked and successfully defended, but William Murray and John Fielding saw their houses burned to the ground, while Clerkenwell, the King's Bench Fleet, and Newgate were also burned down, and their prisoners released. Participants wore blue ribbons in their hats in imitation of its initiator, who was defended in court by Thomas Erskine and acquitted. John Wilkes led the army sent by George III to put down this uprising, which grew out of a march on the House of Commons in protest of the Relief Act. FTP, identify this series of anti-Catholic riots in London named after the lord who led them.
Many of the participants drank themselves to death while pillaging the distillery of Thomas Langdale on a day nicknamed Black Wednesday.
{Gordon} Riots