Bloody Sunday occurred on the 21st of November 1920. It was an act of terror and day of violence and bloodshed in Dublin during the War of Independence. On the morning of this day fourteen men were killed in a planned operation to kill British agents in Dublin, directed by Michael Collins. In retaliation members of the Auxiliary Division and Royal Irish Constabulary shot and killed fourteen people and injured dozens more after opening fire on the crowd of five thousand spectators at the Dublin versus Tipperary match in Croke Park. It became a turning point in the war.
Michael Collins was responsible for the event. He had a group of assassins called The Squad and one group Collin’s Squad targeted was the Cairo Group. They were a British intelligence
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The operation began at 9.00am and it was planned so that every target would be killed at 9.00 am.The first British soldiers to die were Major Dowling and Captain Price, two intelligence agents in 28 Pembroke Street. A man named Montgomery was shot, probably as he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but died in December 1920 from his wounds. The next place was 117 Morehampton road, where Lieutenant MacLean who was on special duties and undoubtedly an intelligence agent and Smith, a civilian landlord and probably not an intelligence agent, possibly an informer were shot. At 92 Lower Baggot Street, a man called Newberry was shot. Two key members, Lieutenant Ames and Captain Bennett were shot in 38 Upper Mount Street. A sergeant called Fitzgerald was probably shot only for being a sergeant. Noone has ever claimed to have been involved in his murder. At 22 Lower Mount street, Angliss, an intelligence officer was shot and killed. In 119 Baggot Street Captain Baggallay, a barrister, who was employed as a prosecutor under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations, and has a member of courts that sentenced IRA volunteers to death was shot and killed. In the Gresham hotel, Captain McCormick, who was buying horses for the Alexandria Turf Club was killed, as well as Lieutenant Wilde. Garniss and Morris were two auxiliaries shot as collateral damage and this …show more content…
Panic ensued, and people began frantically trying to escape, pushing and trampling each other in effort to escape which ended up in two people getting trampled to death. Two hundred and twenty eight rounds of ammunition were fired into the crowd. Freeman’s Journal said that “the spectators were startled by a volley of shots fired from inside the turnstile entrances. Armed and uniformed men were seen entering the field, and immediately after the firing broke out scenes of the wildest confusion took place. The spectators made a rush for the far side of Croke Park and shots were fired over their heads and into the crowd” Police fired from the inside of the park and the outside. An RIC officer then came onto the pitch and announced a search but it was some hours until this happened. Fourteen people were killed, some were children. A player, the Tipperary captain, Michael Hogan, was shot as he tried to duck from the bullets. About sixty people were
Rainsfords, Montresor, Walter Palmer, and The Sniper all killed. The Sniper was most justified killing his enemy. Three reasons why are because the brother shot first, he didn’t know it was his brother, he didn’t want to die he was already shot,it was a war. This could have happened to anyone. It was sad when that happened. This is why Why The Sniper is justified for killing his brother
“.the frightened soldiers fired into the crowd.” (Doc 3). As a result of this incident, three people were killed on the scene and two were mortally wounded. The soldiers were also ordered not to fire. The colonists did not think that they should have been shot at or killed, this infuriated them.
Tragedy hit the docks of Everett, Washington, Sunday November 5, 1916 which would be known as “Bloody Sunday.” On November 5, 1916 the Everett Massacre was the culmination of labor trouble which had been brewing for months. It was one of the bloodiest single episodes of labor-related violence in the Pacific Northwest.
The riots after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final acted as a springboard for the conflict between Celtic and Rangers. Before that game, the extent of the tension between the two groups had gone unrealized. However, the truth behind the violence on the field that day continues to plague the rivalry today.
The war attracted attention from the police after a while, which led to Police chief David Hennesy getting shot and killed by members of the Matranga. Nine of the Matranga crime family were put on trial for the murder, but before they could be convicted or set free, a lynch mob that was worried that they might be set free, attacked them at their holding cells. Eleven of the mafia members (nine on trial plus two visitors) sucumbed to injuries that they suffered during the attack. None of the lynch mob were charged with murder, because it would be too hard to figure out which members of the mob actually killed them.
One of the most famous and recognizable gang wars was between Al Capone and George Bugs' Moran. This took place in Chicago, Illinois on February 14,1929. This was called The Saint Valentines Day Massacre'. In the morning at a brick building which was a liquor storage building. Five men who were members of the Irish/German gang under control by George Moran. They were there because they thought there was going to be a truck of hijacked whiskey. While the 7 men were inside the building, a black car pulled up to the building. George Moran had spotted the car and he took cover.
JFK's Death On November 22, 1963, one of the most controversial assassinations happened to one of the greatest leaders in America, by Jack Ruby's mafia, with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that committed the act of treason, in the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). There is hard evidence supporting the cover up and scandal involved with his assassination. Due to the confiscation of films and evidence, the citizens of the United States must only know what they are told by the government. The CIA was associated with the mafia and arranged the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5, 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments, the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain, Thomas Preston, were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder, however the two soldiers who fired first, Private Mathew Killroy, and Private William Montgomery, the two soldiers were guilty of manslaughter. The causes were numerous for this event. There had been a nation wide long-term dislike towards the British, and a growing hatred towards them by the people of Boston. Even before the two regiments were sent in to monitor Boston there was a growing feud before the two sides.
British soldiers fired into a crowd on Kings Street on March 5, 1770. There was a total of 5 people killed. The eight soldiers were charged with murder. I don’t believe the soldiers did commit murder. So I will prove that they did not commit murder. It was just an act of self defense.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots She became queen when she was only 6 days old. She was sent to France at age six to get married. She is the cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. Who is this elegant, yet struggling woman?
The leader of the British, Captain Thomas Preston, gave an order to his soldiers not to fire, but his words were not clear and all the soldiers fired into the crowd. (The Coming of the American Revolution). There were five recorded deaths. One of the people that died was a man of black or Indian race named Crispus Attacks (History.com). The British troops arrived in Bosto...
... saw the men walk into his shop, he was not suspicious of anything. He figured that the men were here to pick out the flowers for Merlo’s funeral. One of the men put his hand out for a handshake, and that is when the other two took out their guns, and shot O’Banion to his death. The killers fled, and they had left the North Side Gang without a commander. O’Banions death lead Capone and Torrio to believe that they would go on with their business peacefully. Little did they know that Moran was going to take revenge on whoever was responsible for his commander’s death.
The first argument made to support this point was the killing of Johnson. Frank Teeling shot Johnson over a bag of tomatoes, states the Criminal Investigation Department. They concluded these actions to the effect of drink. Although, it could be because shell shock. The IRA had their reasons, they were under threat by the British spies and therefore hinder their movement.
At 5:20 p.m. on October 2 2002, a victimless shot was fired through a window of a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. About an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., James Martin, a 55-year-old program analyst at NOAA, was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, located in Glenmont.
Captain Preston and his men are not guilty of committing murder. Teenage boys were harassing a British soldier by calling him names like lobster and making fun of they way they walked. The boys were also throwing snowballs with seashells in them at the British soldier. The soldier never did or said anything until the seventeen year old boy walked up to him and started running his mouth. The soldier then hit the boy in the mouth with the butt of his gun. The boy backed off and went back to the crowd. About 200 people came out of the bars and joined the crowd. They were carrying clubs with them because they