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Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria

Barrie Charles

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Description:Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch, a symbol of Britain's great age of power and imperialism. But her life could so easily have been cut short.Just three years after she ascended to the throne, a humble 'pot-boy' fired a brace of pistols at her from just six paces away. She escaped unharmed, but amazingly there were seven further attacks or attempts on her life over the next forty-seven years. The perpetrators were a mixture of madmen, attention-seekers, and fiends: the unemployed carpenter who ended up transported to the hell of a labor camp in Van Dieman's Land; the midget news vendor who eventually took his own life; the army officer who dressed as a dandy; the disaffected artist, and the Fenian terrorists.Through it all there is Victoria; how she coped with the fear and became a symbol of resolve and determination. Each chapter of this book captures the drama of the attack and uncovers the would-be assassin's motives, describing their lives up to that point, their trial and sentence, and what became of them afterwards. Extensive original research in England and Australia has uncovered a mass of new and previously unpublished detail that makes for an absorbing read.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria. To get started finding Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch, a symbol of Britain's great age of power and imperialism. But her life could so easily have been cut short.Just three years after she ascended to the throne, a humble 'pot-boy' fired a brace of pistols at her from just six paces away. She escaped unharmed, but amazingly there were seven further attacks or attempts on her life over the next forty-seven years. The perpetrators were a mixture of madmen, attention-seekers, and fiends: the unemployed carpenter who ended up transported to the hell of a labor camp in Van Dieman's Land; the midget news vendor who eventually took his own life; the army officer who dressed as a dandy; the disaffected artist, and the Fenian terrorists.Through it all there is Victoria; how she coped with the fear and became a symbol of resolve and determination. Each chapter of this book captures the drama of the attack and uncovers the would-be assassin's motives, describing their lives up to that point, their trial and sentence, and what became of them afterwards. Extensive original research in England and Australia has uncovered a mass of new and previously unpublished detail that makes for an absorbing read.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria. To get started finding Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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