the easternmost town in West Virginia. Originally named Harper's Ferry after an 18th-century ferry owner, the town lost its apostrophe in 1891 in an update...
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states...
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The Harper's Ferry Model 1805 U.S. martial flintlock pistol manufactured at the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia (now West Virginia) was the first pistol...
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77°43′49″W / 39.3228°N 77.7302°W / 39.3228; -77.7302 The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of...
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The Harpers Ferry class of the United States Navy is a class of dock landing ships completed in the early 1990s. Modified from the Whidbey Island class...
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(nightclub), a music venue and nightclub in Boston Harper's Ferry flintlock pistol Harpur's Ferry, A student volunteer ambulance service in Binghamton...
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Falls at Mr. Harper's Ferry (1763) due to the ferry business Robert Harper managed and operated. Today, the original house built by Robert Harper is the oldest...
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The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United...
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The Harper's Ferry M1803 rifle was the first standard rifle (as opposed to a smoothbore musket), made by an American armory. Rifles existed long before...
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Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. pp. 41–66, at p. 50. ISBN 0813915368. "Harper's Ferry Insurrection...
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Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) is the lead ship of her class of landing ship dock of the United States Navy. This warship was named for the town of Harpers Ferry...
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John Brown Junior (section The raid on Harpers Ferry)
John Jr. to Virginia. This mission was to survey the area surrounding Harper's Ferry.[citation needed] Because of tensions between John Brown and other members...
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Harpers Ferry station is a historic railway station in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It is currently served by Amtrak's Capitol Limited as well as MARC...
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John Brown (abolitionist) (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
and a KNIFE found on the body of his son, at Harper's Ferry". An agent of Barnum traveled to Harpers Ferry in November, saw Brown, and offered him $100...
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the events, titled A Voice From Harper’s Ferry. The book describes the conditions that were present at the Harpers Ferry raid, including the training, the...
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Shields Green (section The Harpers Ferry raid)
John Brown and Harper's Ferry: The Story of the Raid and the Old Fire Engine House Known as John Brown's Fort (2nd ed.). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia:...
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Harpers Ferry was a live music venue and bar in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was in the high traffic central student section...
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the 2020 census. Harpers Ferry was platted in 1852; it was then called Winfield. In 1860, the name was changed to Harper's Ferry (with an apostrophe-s)...
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woody terrain—a skill that later saved his life, escaping from the Harper's Ferry debacle.: 346 ("[S]o strong is the woodsman in him, that he gave me...
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Jackson's operations against the B&O Railroad (1861) (section Secession and retreat from Harper's Ferry)
state, including the assignment of Colonel Kenton Harper to Virginia's "Forces In and About Harper's Ferry, Virginia" on April 18. Hours before Virginia Militia...
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Albert Hazlett (section Raid on Harper's Ferry)
raid on Harper’s Ferry Arsenal in 1859. He was captured, tried, convicted, and hanged for his involvement following the failed Harper's Ferry attack....
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Dangerfield Newby (section The raid on Harpers Ferry)
black raiders. He died during Brown's raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. As was usual at the time, Newby's skin color was mentioned:...
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M1819 Hall rifle (redirect from Harpers Ferry Model 1819)
(530 mm), .52 in (13 mm) caliber barrel. The Hall production line at Harper's Ferry closed in 1844, but between 1843 and 1846, 3,000 M1843 carbines were...
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Dixon Stansbury Miles (section Harpers Ferry)
ISBN 978-1-4696-4972-6. Teetor, Paul R. A Matter of Hours: Treason at Harper's Ferry. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-8386-3012-9...
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Watson Brown (abolitionist) (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
he did it himself. He told me that after young Brown was killed at Harper's Ferry, that he had the body sent to Winchester, and that upon consultation...
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Mary Ann Day Brown (section Harpers Ferry raid)
was the second wife of abolitionist John Brown, leader of a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), which attempted to start a campaign...
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Mary Ellen Pleasant (section Harpers Ferry)
West Virginia, as well as a merchant and land-owner, owning land near Harper's Ferry, and a widower with a daughter named Emma. She stated that she married...
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pp. 394–395. "Col. Robert E. Lee's Report Concerning the Attack at Harper's Ferry". University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. October 18, 1959...
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Virginia v. John Brown (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
Citizen of Harpers Ferry (1859). Startling incidents & developments of Osowotomy Brown's insurrectory and treasonable movements at Harper's Ferry, Virginia...
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John Brown's Fort (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
the anti-slavery advocate John Brown's refuge during his 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, in which he hoped to launch the overthrow of slavery. It is the only...
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