Cavalry and Canvas: The Brutal Suppression of the Peterloo Massacre

Sinopsis del libro

What happens when a peaceful crowd of sixty thousand impoverished workers gathers to demand the right to vote, only to be met with the drawn sabers of their own government's cavalry? The tragic answer unfolded on a Manchester field during the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. In the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, England was…