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The Gunpowder Plot
Why did the gunpowder plot fail?
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Wiki User
January 22, 2011 6:06PM
because it did?!!
it was because King James had gotten a letter from someone, King James waited for the 5th of November to come and then arrested Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes was then hanged in front of aload of people.
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Fawkes was tortured until he owned up and the other 7 were
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The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt by a group of
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fifth of November gunpowder,treason or plot!!