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What was a highwayman? Highwaymen as they were dubbed in Britain, and elsewhere known as land-pirates. Mainly because they robbed mail & stagecoaches. They were also often referred to as road agents, or bushrangers, and in Ireland, sometimes as Rapparees. Whatever were outlaws who plied their trade along the travelled highways of the world. In…
What was a Highwayman? Highwaymen as they were dubbed in Britain, and elsewhere known as land-pirates, mail-coach robbers, stagecoach robbers, road agents, or bushrangers. They were outlaws who plied their trade along the travelled highways of the world. In Britain and Ireland, they were active for around 200 years, between the early 17th and 19th…
What was a highwayman? Highwaymen as they were dubbed in Britain, were outlaws who plied their trade along the travelled highways of the world. In other parts of the world, they were known as land-pirates, mail-coach robbers, stagecoach robbers, road agents, or bushrangers. In the British Isles, they were active for the 200 years between…
What is a highwayman? Highwaymen as they were dubbed in Britain, were outlaws who plied their trade along the travelled highways of the world. In other parts of the world, they were known as land-pirates, mail-coach robbers, stagecoach robbers, road agents, or bushrangers. In the British Isles, they were active for the 200 years between…
Dick Turpin in Brief Dick Turpin is, undoubtedly the most celebrated and best remembered, of all the British highwayman and his has been romanticised in poems, books, television and films, down the years. Highwayman are almost always portrayed as dashing, heroic, gentlemanly figures, however, the truth could often be very different. So, just how much…
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