William Hulton sent the orders to George L'Estrange that eventually led to this, and his choice of his second-in-command to carry this out may have made matters worse. John Knight was arrested for his presence here, even though he did not actually fulfill his purpose for attending before he was arrested by troops led by Hugh Birley, who might have been drunk. This incident also led to the founding of what is now The Guardian newspaper, as well as inspired a poem that imputes Castlereagh with Murder and Lord Eldon with Fraud, Percy Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy. What was this event in which fifteen people were killed
William Hulton sent the orders to George L'Estrange that eventually led to this, and his choice of his second-in-command to carry this out may have made matters worse. John Knight was arrested for his presence here, even though he did not actually fulfill his purpose for attending before he was arrested by troops led by Hugh Birley, who might have been drunk. This incident also led to the founding of what is now The Guardian newspaper, as well as inspired a poem that imputes Castlereagh with Murder and Lord Eldon with Fraud, Percy Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy. What was this event in which fifteen people were killed after cavalry charged into a rally led, for 10 points, by Henry Hunt for parliamentary reform, held in Manchester in 1819?
William Hulton sent the orders to George L'Estrange that eventually led to this, and his choice of his second-in-command to carry this out may have made matters worse.
{Peterloo} Massacre [accept Battle of {Peterloo} or reasonable equivalents involving {St. Peter's Field}]