Born in Connecticut in 1800, helped capture an arsenal in 1859, died a martyr that same year
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John Brown - PBS  On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at ... Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured. John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by ... During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio,...
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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia  John Brown (May 9, 1800  December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed ... He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed. Within 36 hours, Brown's men had fled or been killed or captured by local pro-slavery ... John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut.
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia  John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, ... Rather, he intended to use those rifles and pikes he captured at the arsenal, ..... But through the trial, Brown transformed into a martyr.
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American Experience . John Brown's Holy War . Program ... - PBS  On December 2, 1859, a tall, gaunt, fifty-nine-year-old man was executed in Virginia ... Was he a martyr or a madman, a fanatic or a hero? ... Born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio, John Brown was the child of devout ... Two years later, the abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy was shot to death in Illinois by a proslavery mob.
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John Brown | HistoryNet  Died. December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia ... John Brown was born May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, but spent much of his youth in Ohio. ... including two of Brown's sonson a raid to seize the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, .... two dozen scholarly biographies in the 150 years since his capture at Harpers Ferry.
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Full text of "American gun makers including Supplement of AMerican ...  ADAMS, Samuel Troy, N. Y. in 1840; Kentucky rifles. ADAMS ... Maker of a half stock, heavy barrelled, percussion slug gun. ... 2 American Gun Makers AFFERBACH, Wm. Philadelphia, Pa. ... ALBRIGHT, Henry  Gunsmith, Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, 1800. ..... Unidentified "Hero" percussion pocket pistols.
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Billy the Kid - Wikipedia  Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty; also known as William H. Bonney (September 17, 1859  July 14, 1881) was an American Old West gunfighter who participated in New Mexico's Lincoln County War. He is known to have killed eight men. His first arrest was for stealing food in late 1875, and five months later he ... He took part in the Lincoln County War and joined the Regulators, making...
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Graveyard Holds a Battle's Bitter Memories - NYTimes.com  Oct 24, 1993 ... IF any place in Connecticut truly reflects the spookiness of Halloween, ... still considered the leading traitor in American history, Benedict Arnold. ... by about 150 militia soldiers, many of them farmers called to the fort when ... The citizen-soldiers who had died at Fort Griswold were brought ... Both were killed.
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Temple University - Matrix  A Lawyer Acquitted: John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials. Author(s): .... of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution 191-230. (1965). 7. ... Thomas Gage, 26 August 1770, in Randolph G. Adams, supra note 9, at 329. 12. ... feature of the "massacre" trials: Captain Preston and his soldiers retained...
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Africans in America/Part 2/Crispus Attucks - PBS  Painting of the Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks as he is shot. ... As a slave in Framingham, he had been known for his skill in buying and ... he became a sailor, working on a whaling crew that sailed out of Boston harbor. ... to the lone soldier's rescue, and Attucks was one of five men killed when they opened fire.
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Ethan Allen - Military Leader - Biography.com  Jan 13, 2016 ... Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga during the ... Ethan Allen was born in 1738 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Hiram Percy Maxim - Wikipedia  Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869  February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer ... In addition, he was the nephew of Hudson Maxim, an inventor of explosives and ... Maxim is also noted as the inventor of the "Maxim Silencer", a suppressor for firearms (patented in 1908) as well as of a silencer (or muffler) for...
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David Crockett (August 17, 1786  March 6, 1836) was a celebrated ...  David Crockett (August 17, 1786  March 6, 1836) was a celebrated ... In early 1836, Crockett took part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle ... After his death, he continued to be credited with brazen acts of mythical proportion. ... David Crockett was born in what is now Greene County, Tennessee, close to the...
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John Brown | American abolitionist | Britannica.com  (now in West Virginia), in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was ... militant American abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. ... Though he was white, in 1849 Brown settled with his family in a black .... Georgia Encyclopedia - History and Archaeology - Biography of John Brown...
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia  John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ... He planned to hold Harpers Ferry for a short time, expecting that as many ..... Hanged December 16, 1859 in Charles Town. Body sent...
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Doctor Willard Bliss - Wikipedia  Doctor Willard Bliss MD (August 18, 1825  February 21, 1889) was an American physician and expert in ballistic trauma, who treated James A. Garfield after his mortal wounding from a gunshot in ... Bliss later became superintendent at Washington D.C.'s Armory Square Hospital; he continued to practice in the city after the...
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BRIA 16 1 a John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials ...  On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired on a mob of colonists in Boston. ... Yet John Adams, future second president of the United States and cousin of Boston ... Sam Adams, ended up defending a group of hated British soldiers at their trials. .... After all, Preston was never accused of shooting at the crowd himself. But the...
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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia  John Brown (May 9, 1800  December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed ... Brown's trial resulted in his conviction and a sentence of death by hanging. Brown's ... He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed. ... John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut.
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Find A Grave - North Burial Ground  Records 21 - 35 ... In 1803 he graduated from Rhode Island College, which would, in the next year be ... He was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick to a father from Barbados and a ... to defend Boston and was in the infantry during the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill. .... He was also the creator of the Dow Jones Industrial.
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jeopardy/1954_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE OLD WEST | These last names of Springfield, Mass. gunmakers Horace & Daniel were very familiar to people in the Old West | Smith & Wesson. right: Karim.
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Samuel Colt - Wikipedia  Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814  January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He founded Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today, Colt's ... Sarah died from tuberculosis when Samuel was six years old, and his father ...... The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, Volume 1.