URSULINE CONVENT
\ˈɜːsuːlˌɪn kˈɒnvənt], \ˈɜːsuːlˌɪn kˈɒnvənt], \ˈɜː_s_uː_l_ˌɪ_n k_ˈɒ_n_v_ə_n_t]\
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Mobbed and burned by Protestant rioters of Boston August 12, 1834. Strange stories had been circulated about the cruel treatment of the inmates of the convent, and the straiter sect of native Americans became riotous in opposition to the unruly Irish and other foreign Roman Catholic element.
By John Franklin Jameson
Nearby Words
- urson
- ursopen
- ursuk
- ursula
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- Ursuline Convent
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- ursus
- ursus americanus
- ursus arctos
- ursus arctos horribilis