Siege of Sidney Street

When

3 Jan 1911

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

51.52° N, 0.06° W

Description

1911 siege in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney

1911 gunfight in the East End of London

The siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three…

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Um Mitglieder einer Bande baltischer Anarchisten festzunehmen, riegeln Ordnungskräfte einen Wohnblock in der Sidney Street im Londoner East End ab, woraufhin”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “siège de Sidney Street ; fusillade dans lEast End de Londres”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page