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No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca

Janine Marshall Wood

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Description:There he was – John Hughes – a handsome young man with face blackened, clad in a white nightdress and bonnet adorned with feathers. Leading hundreds of other young farmers similarly disguised, he was on a mission. After midnight under moonlight, amid a cacophony of drums, horns, gunfire and general caterwauling, they announced their presence, with John leading the way on his while horse.The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1844 to protest primarily about excessive tolls imposed to travel across the Welsh countryside. It was a just cause in a harsh, poverty-stricken era; a serious movement imbued with a sense of the ridiculous. John Hughes was a Rebecca. He was caught red-handed leading an attack to demolish a toll gate and tollhouse. Headline news across the Western world reported his trail, which resulted in transportation to the ends of the earth.The life story of John Hughes is traced fro Wales to England to Van Diemen's Land, and eventually to his freedom and new life in North West Tasmania.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca. To get started finding No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Forty South Publishing

Release: 2021

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Description: There he was – John Hughes – a handsome young man with face blackened, clad in a white nightdress and bonnet adorned with feathers. Leading hundreds of other young farmers similarly disguised, he was on a mission. After midnight under moonlight, amid a cacophony of drums, horns, gunfire and general caterwauling, they announced their presence, with John leading the way on his while horse.The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1844 to protest primarily about excessive tolls imposed to travel across the Welsh countryside. It was a just cause in a harsh, poverty-stricken era; a serious movement imbued with a sense of the ridiculous. John Hughes was a Rebecca. He was caught red-handed leading an attack to demolish a toll gate and tollhouse. Headline news across the Western world reported his trail, which resulted in transportation to the ends of the earth.The life story of John Hughes is traced fro Wales to England to Van Diemen's Land, and eventually to his freedom and new life in North West Tasmania.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca. To get started finding No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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