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Bolton Massacre

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28 May 1644

28 May 1644. James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, led an infantry assault on Bolton that killed an estimated 1,600 people. When he was captured at Worcester seven years later and executed at Bolton, the town remembered.

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