The plot was intended to have symbolic as well as strategic value. The primary target of the conspiracy was the Protestant King James I, but most of the king’s immediate family, hundreds of parliamentarians and diplomats, and untold numbers of servants and assistants would have been likely casualties along with the king. The Gunpowder Plot, or Powder Treason, of 1605 was an attempt by a conspiracy of a dozen Catholic Englishman to commit mass murder and mass destruction by blowing up the House of Lords in London.
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