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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
October 16-18, 1859
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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Brown and twenty-one men seized the federal armoury intending to arm a slave uprising, and were taken two days later by marines under Robert E. Lee. He was hanged that December, said on the scaffold that only blood would purge the country, and was proved right within eighteen months.
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