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Showing posts with label ashton-under-lyne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ashton-under-lyne. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

28th August 1812: General Maitland reports Luddites from Lancashire & Derbyshire taking the oath of Allegiance

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Wakefield 28th August 1812 My dear Lord I this morning had the honor to receive Your’s of the 26th and should not trouble You to day t...
Thursday, 5 July 2012

5th July 1812: Captain Francis Raynes almost triggers a riot near Mottram in Cheshire

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Captain Francis Raynes and his Special Forces detachment were busy suppressing the local population of the area surrounding Mottram, in Ches...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

24th June 1812: General Acland gives orders to the special forces detachment of Captain Francis Raynes

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(Confidential.) Captain Raynes will proceed with the detachment under his command, this day, to Dukinfield; where he will endeavour to proc...
Friday, 22 June 2012

22nd June 1812: General Maitland gives orders for the use of Special Forces on the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire & Cheshire

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Buxton 22nd June 1812 Dear Acland We must certainly try some thing in the subject of that part of the Country above Ashton, I am entire...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

14th June 1812: Luddites drill in the daytime near Ashton-under-Lyne

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Although Luddites were well-known for conducting meetings and drilling under the cover of darkness in the night-time, on Sunday 14th June 18...
Friday, 20 April 2012

20th April 1812: Colonel Clay informs the Home Office of the state of Manchester & the surrounding towns

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Manchester 20. April 1812 ½ past 11 o’clock. P.M. Sir In consequence of information I received from the Police Office at a late hour l...

20th April 1812: Serious rioting across the North West of England

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On Monday 20th April 1812, serious rioting broke in many towns across the North-West of England. Much of it bore the character of food rioti...
Monday, 19 March 2012

19th March 1812: An Ashton man overhears a conversation about oaths and a planned uprising

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On Thursday 19th March 1812, Joseph Taylor of Hurst, near Ashton-under-Lyne, was standing near to his house watching the world go by. Across...