Comments on: 1803: Edward Marcus Despard, a patriot without a nation http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:51:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Not Thomas Paine http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-12224 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Not Thomas Paine Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:12:58 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-12224 [...] Next year is the bicentennial of his death in obscurity and pauperhood; his homelessness, so to say, in the annals of political thought and national pantheons testifies in some ways to the defeat his principles suffered in his very lifetime. The American Revolution turned conservative; France’s fell to despotism; England’s was strangled in its crib. [...] [...] Next year is the bicentennial of his death in obscurity and pauperhood; his homelessness, so to say, in the annals of political thought and national pantheons testifies in some ways to the defeat his principles suffered in his very lifetime. The American Revolution turned conservative; France’s fell to despotism; England’s was strangled in its crib. [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1820: John Baird and Andrew Hardie, for the Radical War http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-11326 ExecutedToday.com » 1820: John Baird and Andrew Hardie, for the Radical War Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:32:27 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-11326 [...] ever since the cataclysmic French Revolution, nervous authorities had kept a very tight lid on excesses of popular agitation. On May 1, 1820, London police hanged the Cato Street [...] [...] ever since the cataclysmic French Revolution, nervous authorities had kept a very tight lid on excesses of popular agitation. On May 1, 1820, London police hanged the Cato Street [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-8058 Tony Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:39:16 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-8058 Catherine & Edward Marcus Despard also get a chapter in Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker's "the Many Headed Hydra". Catherine & Edward Marcus Despard also get a chapter in Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker’s “the Many Headed Hydra”.

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1820: The Cato Street Conspirators http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-4232 ExecutedToday.com » 1820: The Cato Street Conspirators Fri, 01 May 2009 12:37:04 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-4232 [...] British government that had tilted from reactionary after the French Revolution to furiously repressive after defeating Napoleon was energetically at [...] [...] British government that had tilted from reactionary after the French Revolution to furiously repressive after defeating Napoleon was energetically at [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s First Annual Report: One Year of Dying Languorously http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-2082 ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s First Annual Report: One Year of Dying Languorously Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:27:46 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-2082 [...] February 21, 1803: Edward Marcus Despard, a patriot without a nation [...] [...] February 21, 1803: Edward Marcus Despard, a patriot without a nation [...]

]]> By: darren redstar http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-859 darren redstar Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:20:47 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-859 what a shame that jays despard has become the widest distributed account of the colonels life. Jays book displays a woefull ignorance of the historical work on both despard and the revolutionary mvement in britain and Ireland at the end of the 18th century. His willingness to dismiss the wealth of such work in favour of seeing despard as a champion of 'conservative liberty' and is woefully ignorant that he believes that patriot was a conservative term in the late 18thcentury when it was in fact the name which the most radical of revolutionaries gave themselves. what a shame that jays despard has become the widest distributed account of the colonels life.
Jays book displays a woefull ignorance of the historical work on both despard and the revolutionary mvement in britain and Ireland at the end of the 18th century. His willingness to dismiss the wealth of such work in favour of seeing despard as a champion of ‘conservative liberty’ and is woefully ignorant that he believes that patriot was a conservative term in the late 18thcentury when it was in fact the name which the most radical of revolutionaries gave themselves.

]]> By: Headsman http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-689 Headsman Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:55:53 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/21/1803-edward-marcus-despard/#comment-689 A fine question. Precedents seem <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_kramer?printable=true" rel="nofollow">discouraging</a>. Optimism of the will? Off-topic, I'd also like to flag some <a href="http://jonquil.livejournal.com/680402.html" rel="nofollow">good commentary on this post</a> that took place on Livejournal. A fine question. Precedents seem discouraging. Optimism of the will?

Off-topic, I’d also like to flag some good commentary on this post that took place on Livejournal.

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