Peterloo Massacre bronze plaque
Manchester, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
On 16 August 1819 some 50,000 men, women, and children from Manchester and the surrounding region gathered peacefully on this site, St. Peter's Field, to demand a radical reform of Parliament and the vote for all adult males. The Local magistrates sent in constables to arrest the speaker Henry Hunt,
supported by armed cavalry. The volunteer Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry attacked the platform and the crowd, followed by the Cheshire Yeomanry cavalry of the 15th Hussars then charged to di
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