Guy Fawkes: Guilty or Innocent?

What could authorities have done to either predict or prevent some or all of these attacks? The letters were very revealing when it came to him intentions and how far he was willing to go. Somebody should have turned in these letters and this could have been prevented.

On the cold and snowy night of March 5, 1770, rioters marched down King Street in Boston, breaking the usual silence. In front of the customs office, the violent rioters were met by five British soldiers and their commanding officer. They immediately began haranguing the soldiers. During the ensuing chaos, the soldiers, who had been bombarded by stones and balls of ice, were becoming anxious as they waited for commands from their superiors. However, the soldiers panicked when they heard, through the yells of the rioters, the word “Fire!”. Upon hearing that word, the soldiers opened fire on the crowd with their muskets. “Shouts and curses filled the air.” (pg. 206). Five rioters were swiftly killed.This was the infamous Boston Massacre- An event that shaped U.S. history and fed the growing flames of revolution among the British colonists in America. After the massacre, the outraged people of Boston called for a trial. Defending the soldiers was renowned lawyer and future president John Adams, who believed that everyone should be granted a fair trial. With the help of Mr. Adams, the soldiers were determined to achieve victory. Through months of thought and many struggles, they succeeded. As punishment, the soldiers were branded and sent back to England, but

Do you agree with the view that Thomas Cromwell was the driving force in the break with Rome in the years to 1534?!

To begin, the conspirators and people who live in England do not like the changes that the Queen has been making. One of the first changes that the Queen made when she

One of many reasons the witch trials were able to continue was because of Judge Danforth’s ignorance towards what was actually going on in Salem. When Francis Nurse and John Proctor try to explain to him the girls are deceiving him, he over rules their ideas by challenging “And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?”(Miller 179). Danforth is proud to say that he has put people in jail, put people to death for witchcraft because his ignorance blocks him from seeing the evidence he is presented with is false. As well as being exposed to false evidence, Judge Danforth also makes the claim that witchcraft cannot be disproved; therefore the court has to rely solely on the girl’s accusations. Danforth declares, “But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not?

Aaron - But spies and friends of the Americans leaked word of Gage's plan. Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church informed the countryside that the British were going to attack by sea.

Press coverage of this letter led to a veritable avalanche of similar correspondence that resulted in the police investigation almost being brought to melt down. Yet the likelihood is that the person responsible for the murders was not the same person who sent this letter. It was believed by police officers at the time and the majority of modern day experts are unanimously in agreement, that the letter was the work of a Journalist.

The day of the attack, rumors circulated hinting at the grand plot to be carried out that night. Thomas Bench, a Boston civilian loyal to the crown, claims that he heard “conspiracies against His Royal Highness, King George III, alluding to colonial protests

To worsen the situation of Catholics, rumors about a Popish Plot started to be spread. Oates and Tonge, the ones who invented the plot, affirmed that a group of Jesuits were planning to kill the King and place in his place his Catholic brother, James. Thereupon these declarations, a wave of false accusations against Catholics were made, and many were punished and killed. The Commons passed a bill hardening the Test Act. In response to this supposed Popish Plot, the Whigs started a plot to prevent James from becoming the new King when Charles died. When this conspiracy was brought to light, it ruined the Whig

From 1678 to 1681 the idea of 'The Popish Plot' took over conversation and became an obsession in the country. The Plot, which this time was entirely fictional, was created to scare the country into believing that Catholics where conspiring to dethrone Charles II like they had done in 1605 with the gunpowder plot. The cartoon shows parliament under one archway in session and Guy Fawkes in the other with the gunpowder to blow up parliament. This false plot was designed to create fear amongst the protestant community, it replicates the gunpowder plot of 1605, this print and the idea of a second plot increased the division in society for Catholics, a significant impact on the treatment of Catholics after the plot as even 80 years later the puritans still printed propaganda, the cartoon also implies the shunning off know Catholics in society. This occurrence was one of many replications of the plot, causing severe repercussions for Catholics.

Dr Mark Nicholls, a fellow in History at St John's College, Cambridge notes that “ theories that the government either knew of the conspiracy draw unwarranted conclusions from the surviving evidence and fail to advance any credible motive for such chicanery. Those who would charge shadowy state forces with malicious intent ignore a central truth that the revelation of the plot was hugely embarrassing”. Nicholls dismisses the notion of the availability of gunpowder and states “The fact is almost every gentleman in early 17th-Century Britain would have had a stock of gunpowder”. On the subject of transporting the gunpowder into Parliament. He states “Quite simply, it would have been very easy to acquire the gunpowder which, although weighing

The burning of Thomas Cranmer took Place on Broad Street, Oxford England, on 21 March 1556, but the account wasn’t

Of the many symbolic masks, the Guy Fawkes mask stands out as one of the most effective, often being used as a “masked identity” in order to make profound statements. Not only does this secret identity create more attention to the “masked one” but it also diverts attention to the cause rather than the identity. Literally using a mask, Fawkes was the main influence of the character “V”, in James McTeigue’s, V For Vendetta. V’s connections and motivations to Guy Fawkes, his attempt to justify himself as a terrorist, and V’s concealment of his true identity, collectively define the message that V conveys to his audience: to break parliament and take control of their own country.

February 15, 1894, was the most interesting afternoon in the otherwise dreary history of Greenwich Observatory. Earlier in the day, Martial Bourdin, a skinny anarchist, traveled by train from Westminster to Greenwich, concealing a small bomb. As he ominously ambled through Greenwich Park, towards the Observatory, something happened - no one knows exactly what - and he blew most of himself to shreds. The British, who loved to quantify in the late nineteenth century, noted that the explosion spread bits of flesh over a distance of sixty yards. Martial Bourdin remained alive for another half hour, but gave no hint as to the reason for his choice of such a bizarre

Guy Fawkes also known as Guido Fawkes spent his early childhood growing up in York, England (Biography). Fawkes was born 1570 in a Yorkshire family and a convert of Roman Catholicism. Fawkes father, Edward Fawkes, died while Guy was still a child, he was part of the judiciary, while Guy's mother, Edith, had a Catholic background. As the years grew older Fawkes decided to leave Protestant England in 1593 along with his religion. While he fled, he enlisted in the Spanish army in the