Porteous Riots
Porteous Riots To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this ... the City Guard of Edinburgh, Captain John Porteous was charged with keeping the peace and ... the Lord Provost of Edinburgh instructed Captain Porteous to call out the entire guard and ... execution the mob became violent, and Captain Porteous instructed his men to fire into ...
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List of riots
List of riots This is a chronological list of historical riots: 18th century and earlier 121 BC - Roman ... Election Riot of 113 BC 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30 ... Servants Riot , (London, England) 1725 - French Food Riots of 1725 , (Caen, Normandy/Paris, France) ...
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Category:Riots in the United Kingdom
Category:Riots in the United Kingdom Pages in category "Riots in the United Kingdom" There are 19 ... B Battle of the Bogside 2005 Birmingham riots Black Friday (1919) Bradford Muslim/BNP riot Brixton Riots Brixton riot (1981) B cont. Brixton riot ... 1995) Broadwater Farm riot C Caia Park Riots G Gordon Riots H Handsworth riots ...
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1736
... Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette April 14 - Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after execution of a ... Andrew Wilson when town guard captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later May 8 - Marriage of ... troops. September 7 - Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth ...
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Robert Walpole
... increase in the tax on gin inspired riots in London. The even more serious Porteous Riots broke out in Edinburgh, after the King ... pardoned a captain of the guard (John Porteous) who had commanded his troops to shoot ...
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The Heart of Midlothian
... backdrop was the event known as the Porteous Riots. In 1736, a riot broke out in ... Captain of the City Guards, Captain John Porteous, ordered the soldiers to fire into the crowd, killing several people. Porteous was later killed by a lynch mob ...
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
... with disfranchisement for the affair of the Porteous mob. His English practice had as yet ... Bloomsbury house was burned in the Gordon Riots in 1778 he lived exclusively at Kenwood ... destruction of his house during the Gordon riots was mainly due to the fact that ...
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Timeline of fictional historical events
... be released in the middle of the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh (Walter Scott: The Heart of ... to that of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, occurs soon after (Grand Theft Auto: San ...
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Duncan Forbes (judge)
... in opposing punishment of Edinburgh for the Porteous Riots. He endeavoured to detach Lovat from the ...
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Category:History of Edinburgh
... Parliament House, Edinburgh P cont. Playfair Project Porteous Riots S St. Margaret's Chapel T Timeline ...
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