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Manchester heroes, British Cartoon Print

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Prints shows Manchester Yeomanry attacking crowd assembled to hear Henry Hunt and other radical orators at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on August 16, 1819.

Notation on recto: "Henry Hunt."

Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 9, no. 13266

Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1819
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Manchester (England)
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