Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 5 días · Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association, argued that the law would enable Catholics to join the British Army and plot treason. The protest led to widespread rioting and looting, including attacks on Newgate Prison and the Bank of England [1] [2] [3] and was the most destructive in the history of London.
1 de may. de 2024 · 20 views 3 hours ago. Dan Gosling, legal records specialist, looks at King's Bench records. This video explores trial records related to the Gordon Riots of 1780. Catalogue Reference: KB8/79...
Hace 1 día · Famously, the Plot unraveled when an anonymous letter warning Lord Monteagle to avoid Parliament‘s opening alerted the authorities to danger. A search on November 4th revealed Fawkes in the cellar with the gunpowder, resulting in his arrest.[^13] Under torture in the Tower of London, he eventually revealed the names of his fellow plotters, setting off a nationwide manhunt.
Hace 3 días · The causes of anti-Romanist fanaticism in Great Britain in the 18th century, with special reference to the Lord George Gordon Riots. Katharine Morris. Wales M.A. 1926.
Hace 1 día · En junio de 1780 se produjeron en Londres una serie de disturbios anticatólicos conocidos como los Disturbios de Gordon. El nombre proviene de Lord George Gordon, parlamentario y dirigente de la Asociación Protestante, que se opuso a la ley propuesta en el Parlamento en 1778 que pretendía mitigar las penas legales contra los católicos.
20 de may. de 2024 · In 1780, Alderman Kennet (Vintner) was mayor during the Gordon riots. He had been a waiter and then a wine merchant, was a coarse and ignorant man, and displayed great incompetence during the week the rioters literally held London.
Hace 2 días · Perhaps the most famous occasion was that illustrated on Plate 25, when 60,000 "good Protestants" met there at the behest of Lord George Gordon at 10 a.m. on 2nd June, 1780. Each person wearing a blue cockade, they paraded with flags, chanting hymns and psalms and then were marshalled into divisions and were addressed by their President.
