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File:The Massacre Of Peterloo.jpg
representing the charge of the Manchester Yeomanry on the unarmed populace in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester. The yeomanry are depicted as butchers armed with axes reeking with the blood of the victims.

— Traill, Henry Duff (ed.), in: 
Date 1819 Inscriptions

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Down with 'em! Chop em down my brave boys: give them no quarter they want to take our Beef & Pudding from us! ---- & remember the more you kill the less poor rates you'll have to pay so go at it Lads show your courage & your Loyalty
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  1. ↑ Traill, Henry Duff (ed); Mann, James Saumarez (ed) (1904) [June 1897] "Notes to Illustrations" in Social England: a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day (Illustrated Edition ed.), London: Cassell and Company, pp. p. xiv Retrieved on 7 April 2010.
Source/Photographer Symes, John Elliotson; Traill, Henry Duff (ed); Mann, James Saumarez (ed) (1904) [June 1897] "The Social Economy" in Social England: a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day (Illustrated Edition ed.), London: Cassell and Company, pp. facing p. 126 Retrieved on 7 April 2010.
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