Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408831717 (1408831716)
Publish date: May 9th 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 304
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....