BattlefieldsAnti-Hanoverian riot at Oxford 1715
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Anti-Hanoverian riot at Oxford 1715

1715
England
Era
modern
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Dissenter congregation; dragoon detachment restoring order
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Oxford students and townspeople
Outcome
Meeting house destroyed; dragoons deployed; several ringleaders imprisoned; Oxford remained a centre of Tory and crypto-Jacobite sentiment for decades
The Battle

History & Significance

Oxford University students and townspeople rioted on the anniversary of the Restoration, pulling down a Dissenter meeting house and attacking symbols of the new Hanoverian regime; the riot reflected Tory and High Church hostility to the new dynasty in its first year

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