Peterloo Massacre

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Peterloo Massacre [ˌpiːtəˈluː]

(Historical Terms) an incident at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, in 1819 in which a radical meeting was broken up by a cavalry charge, resulting in about 500 injuries and 11 deaths

[from St Peter's Fields + Waterloo]

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history Hunt			CAPTION(S): * FREEDOM FIGHT: The Peterloo Massacre - inspiration for a Huddersfield rebellion? You can bank on a revolution by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) Two years later an estimated crowd of 76,000 packed the Town Moor to protest against the Peterloo Massacre near Manchester. Region is fair to all people; HUMAN rights are unlikely to top ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) The police should be more grateful, really: one of the reasons they were brought into being was the public uproar after the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, when local volunteer yeomanry were sent in to break up a political gathering. How to protest - and survive by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk			Peter Minnewit Peter Minuit Peter O'Toole peter out Peter Pan Peter Pan collar Peter Paul Mauser Peter Paul Rubens Peter pence Peter Principle Peter Seamus O'Toole Peter Seeger Peter Sellers Peter Stuyvesant Peter Tchaikovsky Peter the Great Peter the Hermit Peter's fish Peter's gland Peter's pence Peterborough Peterburg Peterel Peterero Peterlee Peterloo Massacre peterman Petermann Peak Peters' projection Petersburg Petersburg Campaign petersham Peterson Peterwort petfood pethidine pétillant petiolar petiolate petiole Petioled Petiolulate petiolule Petipa petit petit bourgeois Petit constable petit dejeuner petit four petit juror petit jury			Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3d earl of Peterborough, England Peterborough, England Peterburg Peterburg Peterburgskie Vedomosti Peterburi Peterburi petered petered petered Peterel Peterero Petergof Petergof Lapidary Works Peterhead Peterhof Peterhof Conferences of 1905 Peterhof, Russia Peterhoff petering petering petering Peterlee Peterlee Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle Peterloo Peterloo Peterloo Massacre Peterman Petermann Glacier Petermann Peak Petermann Peak Petermann, August Petermann, August Heinrich Petermanniaceae petermen peters peters peters Peters MacGregor Capital Management Peters Pence Peters Pence Peters Township High School Peters Township Hockey Club Peters Township Junior Football Association Peters Township Public Library Peters' formula Peters' ovum Peters' projection Peters, Carl Peters, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Hugh Peters, Iakov Peters, Iakov Khristoforovich Peters, Ivy Peters, Jeff

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