Word: hibbert
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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KING MOB (249 pp.)-Christopher Hibbert-World...
...several days before the government of Prime Minister Lord North ordered soldiers to fire on the mob. The "Gordon Riots'' were a part of the process that destroyed the political system of George III and opened the way to 19th century democracy-although Author Hibbert himself admits that to this day nobody has completely explained the why and wherefore of "the most savage riots in English history...