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The Gunpowder Plot
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Why would a group of English Catholics try to blow up Parliament?
On November 5th, 1605, Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators planned to destroy Parliament with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder.
But the men behind the Gunpowder Plot weren't trying to destroy England. They believed they were saving it.
This is the story of the Gunpowder Plot, what the conspirators believed, and why
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