The events of 16 August 1819, when cavalrycharged into a large crowd that had gathered in St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, to demand the reform of parliamentaryrepresentation, killing fifteen and injuring hundreds more.
Origin
, in an ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo, which had taken place four years earlier.
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