Faith and Treasonby Antonia Fraser | |
| Category: |
"World History - Political" |
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| Pages: | 295 |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Date Read: | 08/28/1997 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: Story of the Gunpowder Plot In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the day in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament — and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the Parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic Robert Catesby was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who revealed under torture the names of his fellow plotters. |
| My Rating: | 7 |