The Despard Plot was a failed 1802 conspiracy by British revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, a former army officer and colonial official...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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suspicion. An example is when they arrest Colonel Edward Despard, for provoking the Despard Plot. In 1792, Parliament did pass legislation that introduced...
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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...
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Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist....
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when, what Emmett acknowledged as "similar attempt in England" (the "Despard Plot") was crushed, and when French forces under Humbert were assigned by...
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