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Cato Street Conspiracy

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Cato Street Conspiracy

In British history, unsuccessful plot hatched in Cato Street, London, to murder the Tory foreign secretary Robert Castlereagh and all his ministers on 20 February 1820. The leader, the Radical Arthur Thistlewood (1770-1820), who intended to set up a provisional government, was hanged with four others.


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