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400–700. Assailants. Manchester and Salford Yeomanry. Cheshire Yeomanry. Manchester Special Constabulary. British Army Regulars. The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. It was the largest ever political gathering of working class people.
May 23, 2024 · Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo ) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the Napoleonic ...
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Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, written and directed by Mike Leigh, based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. The film was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
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Apr 5, 2019 · Peterloo is a film about the 1819 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Manchester, England, directed by Mike Leigh. It features Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell and other actors, and has a PG-13 rating for violence and chaos.
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The 15th The King’s Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the regular British Army, were then summoned to disperse the protesters. Sabres drawn they charged the massed gathering and in the general panic and chaos which followed, eleven people were killed and about six hundred injured. This became known as the ‘Peterloo Massacre’.
Aug 16, 2022 · Learn about the 1819 protest in Manchester when thousands of workers demanded more voting rights and better living conditions. Find out what happened, how many people died, and what impact it had on UK politics.
Jan 20, 2021 · Learn about the 1819 massacre of peaceful protesters in Manchester, England, that sparked the reform movement and challenged the corrupt parliamentary system. Find out how the government, the economy and the Corn Laws contributed to the tragedy and its aftermath.
