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to permanently end the automatic assignment of military and police escorts to distraining parties, instead implementing a policy of requiring written proof that a party was genuinely endangered before they would be given an escort. It has been referred to as "the last battle of the Tithe War", though
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and stones" and forced them back. This went on for forty-five minutes, and several members of the escort party began to sustain injuries. Eventually, Waller ordered the escort to open fire on the crowd, which killed at least nine members of the crowd outright and wounded forty-eight people, of whom
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which resolved the controversy. In 1984, a monument was erected in
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at least three subsequently died of their wounds. Nobody from the distraining party or their escort was killed in the incident, though many were injured. The crowd subsequently dispersed and Ryan paid her tithe.
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rector. The farmers attacked the soldiers and policemen who responded after forty-five minutes by opening fire on the farmers, killing between 12 and 20 people and wounding roughly 45.
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