The Swing Riots against threshing machines

Farmworkers in the south and east of England destroy the threshing machines that were taking their jobs, signing letters as a fictional "Captain Swing". Nearly 2,000 people are tried: 252 sentenced to death, 19 hanged and 481 deported to Australia.

Source: Wikipedia, Swing Riots

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