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On the Destruction of the Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, Mass., by the Mob of That City, in 1834 (International) assertion single work   poetry   "'Twas evening, and the nuns were gone to choir,"
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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 On the Destruction of the Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, Mass., by the Mob of That City, in 1834
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This poem deals with the 11-12 August 1834 'Ursuline Convent Riots' in Charlestown, Massachusetts (near Boston). During the riots, a convent was burned down by Protestants in a wave of anti-Roman Catholic sentiment.

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Notes:
Reproduced from the Boston Pilot.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Freeman's Journal vol. 19 no. 1307 25 April 1868 7623181 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 3
    Note: No author attributed in this source.
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Subjects:
  • Charlestown, Massachusetts,
    c
    United States of America (USA),
    c
    Americas,
  • 1834
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