England's last revolution...when thousands of agricultural labourers, near to starving, living in abject poverty, without work, without bread and without hope, subject to the most draconian laws in Europe and ruled by an unsympathetic Parliament of land-owning gentry, hoisted the black flag of anarchy and the 'Tricolour' of revolution and marched across the southern counties of England, destroying threshing machines, burning barns and straw stacks and terrorising the rich. 'Bread or blood!' they chanted and the Government of the day feared a Revolution had broken out. The Government's response was swift and brutal...mass arrests, mass trials at special assize courts, hangings, gaolings and wholesale transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
- ISBN10 144760542X
- ISBN13 9781447605423
- Publish Date 4 August 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English