The Despard Plot was a failed 1802 conspiracy by British revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, a former army officer and colonial official...

and execution in 1803 as the alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate the King. Edward Despard was born in 1751 in Coolrain, Camross, Queen's County...

when, in 1803, he was tried and convicted for a plot to assassinate King George III. Catherine Despard's origins in the Caribbean have been unclear. Some...

seize the Tower of London; the so-called Despard Plot. In court, Nelson recollected his service with Despard in the Caribbean, during the American War:...

trophies of his limbs and fingers. In 1803 Edward Despard and six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered...

conspirators in London. It did not discover the full extent of the plot, but the arrest of Despard and his execution in February 1803 may have weakened English...

suspicion. An example is when they arrest Colonel Edward Despard, for provoking the Despard Plot. In 1792, Parliament did pass legislation that introduced...

when, what Emmett acknowledged as a "similar attempt in England" (the "Despard Plot") was crushed, and when French forces under Humbert were assigned by...

Richard Cooper as Tony Cosgrave Michael Shepley as George Despard Jane Carr as Cleo Despard Geraldine Fitzgerald as Evelyn Daventry Sebastian Shaw as...

1803 executed, the alleged ringleaders of a United conspiracy (the "Despard Plot”) to assassinate of the King, seize the Tower of London and spark a rising...