He had been ready in 1858 to launch his war -- he had both the men and the ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited ...

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Pp. xxvi, 166. Illus., maps, appends., biblio., index. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions and ...

John Brown, seen here c. 1856, led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry that propelled the nation closer to civil war. Newscom John Brown and many of his followers waited in a fire engine ...

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The Civil War (1861-1865 ... about abolitionist John Brown and his 1859 attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They then create posters depicting prominent abolitionists ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...