12-24-2018, 10:40 PM
(11-05-2018, 09:46 AM)BrynStevens Wrote: On the day of 5th November 1605, Guy Fawkes and his cronies had plotted to blow up the House of Lords. While their plan had been successfully thwarted and we now have an occasion to commemorate it, what if the plot actually did happen? How much of an impact would this do to Britain as a whole even to this day?
Discuss.
Here is a nice article to it, it is called: What if: Guy Fawkes had succeeded (1605)
Had the powder combusted properly and wiped out prominent members of the royal family and the country’s political elite as planned, the country’s political landscape would have greatly changed in the long term. Indeed, the fact that Catesby believed otherwise was naïve in the extreme. Common sense dictates that the powerful Protestant ruling families would surely have hunted down the perpetrators, while Protestant vigilantes, galvanised by the act of terror inflicted on their fellow men in Westminster, would have sought revenge against ordinary Catholic civilians. If anything, a successful Gunpowder Plot would have made life worse for English Catholics, not better.
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