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The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing attack carried out by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London on 13 December 1867. Members of the IRB, who were nicknamed " Fenians ", exploded a bomb to try to free a member of their group who was being held on remand at Clerkenwell Prison .
14 Jan 1881: A bomb exploded at a military barracks in Salford, Lancashire. [1] A young boy was killed [2] 16 Mar 1881: A bomb was found and defused in the Mansion House, London. [1] 5 May 1881: Bomb explodes at Chester Barracks, Chester. [3] 16 May 1881: Bomb attack at Liverpool police barracks. 10 June 1881: Bomb planted at Liverpool Town ...
On Saturday 13 December 1884 two American-Irish Republicans carried out a dynamite attack on London Bridge as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign. The bomb went off prematurely while the men were in a boat attaching it to a bridge pier at 5.45 pm during the evening rush hour. [1]
The bomb also caused damage to surrounding buildings (many of which were further damaged by a second bomb the following year). The bomb caused £800 million worth of damage—£200 million more than the total damage costs resulting from all 10,000 previous explosions that had occurred relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A new ...
The first bomb, planted on a train, exploded near Paddington (Praed Street) station damaging the train it was on and a passing train along with part of the station and the signal box. Sixty-two passengers were injured. [1] At the same time, the second bomb exploded in the tunnel between Charing Cross (now Embankment) and Westminster stations ...
A dynamite school in Brooklyn, America trained men in the do-it-yourself use of explosives, and then dispatched them to Britain to undertake attacks in cities there.The sophistication of their bomb design was the work of a chemicals expert who called himself Professor Mezzeroff.
1881–1885: Fenian dynamite campaign: the IRB carried out a bombing campaign against infrastructure, government, military and police targets in Britain. 26 April 1897: A bomb left by an anarchist group on a Metropolitan Railway train exploded at Aldersgate Street station (now Barbican).
This show of force by Doyle discouraged the Fenians, and they dispersed. [6] The invasion reinforced the idea of protection for New Brunswick by joining with the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia , and the United Province of Canada , formerly Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec), to form the Dominion of Canada.