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Violence started on 2 June 1780, with the looting and burning of Catholic chapels in foreign embassies. Local magistrates, afraid of drawing the mob's anger, did not invoke the Riot Act. There was no repression until the government finally sent in the army, resulting in an estimated 300–700 deaths. The main violence lasted until 9 June 1780.
In the late 1830s and early 1840s, the agricultural communities of west Wales were in dire poverty. [3] In 1837 and 1838 the whole country suffered from poor harvests, worse in the south west, where atrocious seasons of rain forced farmers to buy corn at famine prices to feed themselves, their animals and their families, which further eroded what little capital they had. [3]
He unsuccessfully sued The Sydney Morning Herald [citation needed] but was successful in later suits against the authors, publishers and distributors of Tough: 101 Australian Gangsters [14] and the publishers of The Gold Coast Bulletin, which contained a defamatory crossword clue, viz. "Sydney underworld figure, nicknamed Mr Sin (3,7)."
The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., that began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, [1] [2] [3] a restaurant owned by a black man.
A History of St. Louis Gangsters: A Chronology of Mob Activity on Both Sides of the River Ranging from the Egan Rats to the Last Mob Leader on Record. The National Criminal Research Society. 2002. ISBN 097-1340-900; Bureau of Narcotics. The United States Treasury Department. Giancana, Sam. Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime ...
The Porteous Mob, painted in 1855 by James Drummond The Porteous Riot by James Skene, 1818. The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous (c. 1695–1736), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the men under his command to quell a disturbance during a public hanging in ...
The mob broke all the windows with paving stones ripped from the street. [11] The mob beat, tortured and/or killed numerous black civilians, including one man who was attacked by a crowd of 400 with clubs and paving stones, then lynched , hanged from a tree and set alight.
Mob rule or ochlocracy or mobocracy is a pejorative term describing an oppressive majoritarian form of government controlled by the common people through the intimidation of more legitimate authorities.