Peterloo Massacre

British  

/ ˌpiːtəˈluː /

noun

1. an incident at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, in 1819 in which a radical meeting was broken up by a cavalry charge, resulting in about 500 injuries and 11 deaths

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Etymology

Origin of Peterloo Massacre

C19: from St Peter's Fields + _Waterloo

Example Sentences

Earlier this year in Manchester, England, there was a furor around a public monument to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, a central event in British labor history in which mounted soldiers rode into a workers’ protest, killing 18 people.

From New York Times

Hundreds of people are gathering in Manchester to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre.

From BBC

A few weeks before the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the Radisson Blu hotel advertised for a “monitoring and evaluation assistant” on zero hours.

From The Guardian

They have now made two films for the National Trust to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, when the cavalry charged a workers' rights protest in Manchester, killing around a dozen people.

From BBC

In a poem about this event — the infamous Peterloo Massacre — Percy Bysshe Shelley proclaimed that the downtrodden would soon “rise like Lions after slumber.”

From Washington Post