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Newport Rising (1839)

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4 Nov 1839 — Several thousand Chartists come down from the valleys and march on the Westgate Hotel. Soldiers inside fire on them, killing about 22. The leaders are sentenced to death, though their sentences are commuted to transportation. Remember them.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Luddites, Peterloo and Chartism (chapter 6 of Industrial Revolution)
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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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