Porteous Riots, 1736
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Name (Hebrew)
מהומות פרוטיאוס, 1736
Name (Latin)
Porteous Riots, 1736
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Q7231569
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sh 85105074
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James Drummond The Porteous Mob 1855
James Drummond, Public domain
File:Castle Hill and the West Bow.jpg
Unknown (from Gordon of Rothiemay's Map of Edinburgh, 1647), Public domain
File:Edinburgh Town Guard re-enactors, 2013.JPG
Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Porteous Plaque, Grassmarket, Edinburgh (2).JPG
Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:Porteous gravestone, Greyfriars Edinburgh.JPG
Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:The Porteous Mob James Drummond.jpg
James Drummond
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File:The Porteous Riot by James Skene, 1818.JPG
Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikipedia description:
The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of John Porteous, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the men under his command to quell a disturbance during a public hanging in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh in April 1736. Although the rioters were generally supportive of the convicted smugglers, Porteous seems to have been a somewhat overbearing official, despised by the mob and the underclasses of Edinburgh society.
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