Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

very intersting artcle in this months BBC History magzine - about the plot to kidnap the King during 1775, that put Britain on a high alert for terrorist cells in London.

It seems to have quite modern overtones...

Here's a brief synopsis:

<i>On a dark October day in 1775, in a government office in Whitehall, Lord Rochford, the cabinet minister responsible for home affairs, found himself face to face with a young man with an astonishing story. In just six days, he said, King George III would fall victim to a sinister plot in which he would be kidnapped, incarcerated in the Tower of London, and forcibly abducted to his German domain of Hanover.

This spectacularly bold conspiracy was to be launched six months into the rebellion that would become known as the American War of Independence. The young informer was Francis Richardson, an American loyal to his king who served in the British army. The conspirator he named at the heart of the plot was one of his countrymen, Stephen Sayre.</i>