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• Peterloo Memorial   d. August 16, 1819
  Om 16th August 1819 a crowd gathered in St. Peter's Field, manchester, to hear the radical orator Henry Hunt, who favoured annual parliaments and the extension of the vote. The military, fearing insurrection, charged the peaceful and unarmed crowd. In the ensuing melee, 15 died, one shot, the rest sabred or trampled. The event was referred to as 'Peterloo' in mocking reference to the battle of Waterloo, and became a landmark in the progress to universal suffrage. Note: there is now a new red...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: sabred and/or trampled
  Saint Peters Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England
   

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