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Fenian Fire

The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria
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A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life. There were eight attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria during her long reign; four of them were of Irish origin. The most serious of all was the "Jubilee Plot", a conspiracy apparently hatched in New York by the Fenian Brotherhood to blow up the Queen, her family and most of the British Cabinet with dynamite at the great service of thanksgiving to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her accession, held at Westminster Abbey in June 1887. The plot was "uncovered" by Scotland Yard with just a few days to go. Several of the bombers were caught, tried and sentenced to penal servitude for life. But - warned off in time - the master bomber escaped to America. This text, using declassified Foreign Office secret files (marked "Fenian Brotherhood"), discloses the huge secret at the heart of the British counter-intelligence operation against militant Irish nationalists: the entire conspiracy was masterminded for its own reasons by a clandestine British agency reporting directly to the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury.

Author Biography:

Christy Campbell is a writer, journalist and former defence correspondent and feature writer for the Sunday Telegraph, which he joined on the eve of the first Gulf War. He is the author of The Maharajah’s Box, Fenian Fire and Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World.
Release date Australia
April 7th, 2003
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
24 b/w plates (16pp)
Pages
448
Dimensions
129x198x25
ISBN-13
9780007104826
Product ID
1657111

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