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Casualties of Peterloo (Paperback)
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On a perfect summer's day in August - as a faint breeze cooled the
heat of the noonday sun and gently lifted the flags to display
their mottoes and emblems - a huge crowd, mainly of working people,
gathered on St Peter's Field in Manchester to discuss the universal
right to vote that we now all take for granted. Conspicuously
present at the meeting were women, the breeze dishevelling their
long hair as they enthusiastically doffed their hats to cheer.
Suddenly, before the proceedings could begin, the peaceful crowd
was savagely dispersed, the work of charging cavalrymen wielding
recently sharpened sabres, backed up by the truncheons of the
constabulary and the bayonets of the infantry. When the screams had
subsided and the dust had settled on the blood-stained ground, the
true horror of the attack started to become clear. Over 650 were
injured and more than 17 died, many women and children among them
Drawing on eight surviving casualty lists, full of information
about the victims and their attackers, Professor Michael Bush gives
us the first truly objective assessment of the day's events. He
shows that this was no mere act of dispersal. It was an act of
terror and humiliation worthy of the epithet `massacre', and
unequalled in the history of Britain.
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