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thistlewood, arthur

revolutionary who in 1820, a time of economic distress and radical unrest in England, organized the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate all the members of the British Cabinet.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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