His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... a huge complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his ...
In 1847, Yankee Sullivan, then the pretender to the American Heavyweight Champion's Belt, and Bob Caunt, of London, England, went seven rounds at an outdoor site on the Potomac River near the mouth of ...
His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... a huge complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his ...