Three Accounts of Peterloo
Auteur : John Benjamin Smith, Edward Stanley, William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton (Sir, 1st Baron)
Date de publication : 2011
Éditeur : Project Gutenberg
Nombre de pages : Non disponible
Résumé du livre
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial'. The three contemporary accounts, each with a short introduction by the editor, give different perspectives on the events of 16 August 1819, when a troop of Hussars accompanied by the local Yeomanry rode into a peaceful reform rally at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, leaving 18 dead and more than 700 injured.