The+Peterloo+Massacre

__The Peterloo Massacre__

 * Joseph Johnson, John Knight, and James Wroe formed the Manchester Patriotic Union Society in order to work out the problems in the government and England. They decided to set up a meeting between Lancashire and Manchester only. On August 16 the meeting took place on St. Peter's Field and some feared that the meeting would end in an uproar and people might start a riot in the result of the fear they ordered soldiers to be around the place of meeting. There were more than 50,000 people in St.Peter's Field. William Hulton who was the chairman was overlooking the enormous crowd being formed and decided to send more than 400 special constables to separate the crowd. The constables formed two lines on each side of the crowd while the speeches were taking place. For a few hours this took place and Hulton was concerned for the town and its safety so he ordered the arrest of the leaders of the groups that were meeting **
 * . The crowd tried to stop the soldiers and officers from arresting everyone such as the leaders of the group and the speakers. The soldiers were arresting everyone including the news reporters. The officers started to wound people in order to get through the crowd and arrest people. The result of this blood bath ended up with 18 people killed, and 600 wounded. The leaders of the meeting were towed into court and were charged with setting up the meeting illegally. **