The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain, when on November 4, 1839, somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 Chartist sympathizers, including many coal-miners, most with homemade arms, led by John Frost, march on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire, intent on liberating fellow Chartists who are reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel.
