Peterloo
/ˌpiːtəˈluː/
/ˌpiːtərˈluː/
(also the Peterloo Massacre)
- the name given to an incident that took place in Manchester, England, in 1819. A group of people gathered in St Peter's Fields in central Manchester to demand political change. The crowd was large, but peaceful and not armed. It was attacked by the army, who killed eleven people and injured about 500. The name Peterloo is a mixture of St Peter's Fields and Waterloo, the battle at which many people had recently died.
彼得卢（Peterloo）：1819年在英格兰曼彻斯特发生的一次事件的名称。一群人聚集在曼彻斯特中部的圣彼得菲尔德（St Peter's Fields），要求进行政治变革。人群很大，但是和平而没有武装。它遭到军队的袭击，造成11人死亡，约500人受伤。彼得卢（Peterloo）这个名字是圣彼得菲尔德（St Peter's Fields）和滑铁卢（Waterloo）的混合体，最近许多人死于这场战斗。