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Harper's Ferry

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Harper's Ferry [ˈhɑːpəz]
n
(Placename) a village in NE West Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers: site of an arsenal seized by John Brown (1859). Pop.: 308 (1990)
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Noun1.Harper's Ferry - a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there
Harpers Ferry
Mountain State, West Virginia, WV - a state in east central United States


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In January 1860, less than a month after John Brown hanged for attempting to incite a servile insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, an anonymous correspondent to the Charleston Mercury rose to answer Victor Hugo's inflammatory charge, published in a London newspaper, that Brown's execution in the United States by officials in a democratic republic was analogous to the execution of Spartacus by George Washington.
The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory by Paquette, Robert L. / Journal of Social History
Whether it was a weekend getaway with Miss Vicki at Rehoboth Beach or Harper's Ferry, a visit to Put-In-Bay with family and friends, a business trip to photograph Soldiers benefiting from the latest Roll on/Roll off technology, or helping me (perhaps more accurately, me helping him) with a project at our Kent Island vacation house, John attacked it all with a plan and the simple expectation of success.
In celebration of John Randt by Millar, Bill / Translog
I wonder why General Lee ordered General Hill's men over to Harper's Ferry [then a part of Virginia].
Antietam by Landauro, Victor / Junior Scholastic
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