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Peterloo: A defining moment in the struggle for democracy in Britain
in Manchester, England. On August 16 that year, a crowd estimated at up to 80,000 gathered in St ... Peter’s Fields to demand parliamentary reform and an extension of voting rights. On the orders of the ... Civil War of 1648, and led to the formation of the Chartist movement, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the rise ...