THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET, 4TH OCTOBER 1894

Introduction There are incidents in any city’s history that go down in

infamy and just such a one is the Battle of Cable Street

on the 4th day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1894.

THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET, 4TH OCTOBER 1894

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The incident was sparked by a simple daily occurrence

around the great imperial docks in the East End of

London. A wagon heading for the docks to be loaded onto

a fast steamer to India was intercepted by a cadre of the

Brick Lane Commune. They hoped to get whiskey or

cotton cloth, something they might trade for food for the

poor and destitute. What they actually got was secret

shipment of the new water-cooled Vickers machine guns

and enough ammunition to mow down an army.

As the shipment was supposed to be secret the police

were not informed and Captain Napier of the Prince of

Wales’s Extraordinary Company was tasked with their

immediate, and preferably covert, retrieval.

THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET, 4TH OCTOBER 1894

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Above. Brick Lane Commune Incendiaries

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