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Andrew Hardie (radical)

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Name
  
Andrew Hardie


Role
  
Radical

Died
  
1820, Stirling, United Kingdom

Andrew Hardie was second-in-command of the Radical Forces who marched on Scotland's Carron Ironworks at Bonnymuir near Falkirk in the "Radical War" of 1820.

He was sentenced to death and was executed in Stirling on September 8, 1820 along with John Baird. In his speech on the scaffold he declared himself "a martyr to the cause of truth and justice".

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Andrew Hardie (radical) Wikipedia