It was begun as meetings at Healds Green and Dog Inn. A poem written as a reaction to it described Lord Eldon as Fraud, a follower of a creepy skeleton who tries to establish the reign of Anarchy.
It was begun as meetings at Healds Green and Dog Inn. A poem written as a reaction to it described Lord Eldon as Fraud, a follower of a creepy skeleton who tries to establish the reign of Anarchy. Blanketeer veteran Hugh Birley's alcoholism helped precipitate it, and a spelling error caused chants of the unsettling "God Armeth the patriot!" A major influence on the Chartists and a precursor to the passage of the Six Acts, the presence of John Carlile, Joseph Johnson, and Henry Hunt so unnerved William Hulton that he ordered Yeoman Cavalry to attack the speaker's platform. James Wroe's nickname referring to a Napoleonic battle was applied to, FTP, what 1819 massacre of English reformists in Manchester's St. Peter's Fields?
It was begun as meetings at Healds Green and Dog Inn. A poem written as a reaction to it described Lord Eldon as Fraud, a follower of a creepy skeleton who tries to establish the reign of Anarchy.
{Peterloo} Massacre or {Battle of Peterloo} (prompt on “Manchester Massacre”)