The Newport Rising, the last large-scale armed…
November 1839 CE
The men, including many coal-miners, most with home-made arms, are intent on liberating fellow Chartists who are reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel.
About twenty-two demonstrators are killed when troops open fire on them.
The leaders of the rebellion will be convicted of high treason and sentenced to a traitor's death.
The sentence will later be commuted to transportation for life.
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