The cavalry comes to town ! | ||
It took a few days for the military
reinforcements to arrive at Llanidloes, and in the meantime it was the
Chartists themselves who patrolled
the town and kept order ! |
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This
is part of a reward notice which promised one hundred pounds for the recapture of the leader of the Chartists who had been rescued by the crowd of supporters. This was a large sum of money in 1839 ! |
The troops sealed off the town and
arrested over thirty Chartists, including
three women, and sent them to Montgomery jail. Following the trial
of those involved in the release of the arrested Chartists, three Llanidloes
men were sentenced to be transported
from Woolwich in October 1839.
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