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What Are The Causes Of The Anti-Saxon Rebellion

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May 4th, 1970 General Canterbury, gave the order that the demonstrators must disperse. They even drove around in a jeep telling the protestors that the rally was banned, and that they must disperse. Then the protesters, began throwing things at the jeep, so the jeep retreated. The Guard was ordered, by Canterbury, to load and lock their weapons, and fire tear gas canisters into the crowd around the Victory Bell, and then ordered the Guard to march in an attempt to disperse the rally. The protestors, were pushed into the Prentice Hall parking lot as well as the football field. As the Guard assembled on top of a small hill, twenty-eight of the more than seventy Guardsmen turned suddenly and fired their rifles and pistols. Some of the guardsmen

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