Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781408828878
Publish date: May 10th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
In 1812, during a crucial period before war might be declared between Great Britain and the United States over British harassment of Atlantic trade, the British prime minister was shot in the House of Commons. The assassin was a gentleman, a merchant from Liverpool, who never tried to resist arrest....