Dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war…

January 1855 CE

Dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war is growing with the public in the UK and in other countries, aggravated by reports of fiascos, especially the devastating losses of the heroic Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.

On Sunday, 21 January 1855, a "snowball riot" occurs in Trafalgar Square near St Martin-in-the-Fields in which fifteen hundred people gather to protest against the war by pelting buses, cabs and pedestrians with snow balls.

When the police intervened, the snowballs sre directed at the officers.

The riot is finally put down by troops and police acting with truncheons.

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