BattlefieldsAnti-Hanoverian toast riots Manchester 1748
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Anti-Hanoverian toast riots Manchester 1748

1748
England
Era
modern
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Tory/Jacobite-sympathising rioters
Forces
Whig citizens; military garrison
VS
Victor
British military/Whig authorities
Forces
Manchester Tory and Jacobite-sympathising crowds
Outcome
Riots suppressed; Manchester remained under suspicion as a Jacobite town; surveillance of local Jacobite networks continued through the 1750s
The Battle

History & Significance

Manchester Tory and crypto-Jacobite crowds rioted following the defeat of the 1745 rising; toast-houses and clubs where Jacobite sympathies were maintained were the sites of confrontations with Whig citizens and eventually government troops

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