Entries for the tag ‘1794 Treason Trials’
Anti-radical show trials mounted by Pitt the Younger, resulting in acquittals and public rejoicing. 
- 26 June 1794: The editor of the Sheffield Register fires off a final broadside against Georgian despotism, and flees to the continent and thence to the United States
- 15 August 1805: The Sheffield volunteer infantry depart to fight Napoleon on the beaches, which one man thinks might be in the Peak District
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