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Around midnight on Nov. In total nine plot members, Fawkes among them, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Known in the early 17th century as Gunpowder Treason Day, the occasion is laced with distinctly religious overtones of anti-Catholic sentiment.
Considerably spiritual in nature, the event channeled Protestant pride into demonstrations against such Catholic figures such as the pope.
The anti-Catholic theme at the heart of the festival fluctuated throughout the 19th century, eventually reaching moderate insignificance. Following the union of Great Britain and Ireland, tremendous civil disorder necessitated the Roman Catholic Relief Act, granting Catholics greater rights.
The image of Fawkes was thereafter rehabilitated, acquiring a more sympathetic quality. It revolved aroun gambling, fashion, debt, and adultry. Charles James Fox supported the protecting American Colonists during his first stint in Parliament from - , then citizens of Foxborough, Massachusetts, responded by naming their town in his honor.
When Charles James Fox's political vaction returned to power in , Charles James Fox returned to Parliament and in , he became Great Britain's first Foreign Secretary, charged with negotiating a peace treaty with the Americans following the British defeat at Yorktown, Virginia. In General George Washington's orders for the day, he criticized "that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the Pope," part of the traditional Guy Fawkes celebration.
He went on to express his bewilderment that there could be "Officers and Soldiers in this Army so void of common sense" and berated the troops for their inability to recognize that "defense of the general Liberty of America" demanded expressions of "public thanks" to the Canadian Catholics who General George Washington believed to be necessary allies and wrote that he found "monstrous" any actions, which might "be insulting their Religion.
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