John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders.

Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured. John Brown was born into ... raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown was wounded and quickly captured ...

It's time for a revolution. John Brown has used his funding from the Secret Six to collect guns and begin his guerrilla war ...

These words, which greet visitors entering the John Brown Museum at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia ... and that it’s always wrong to attack the government over a law, even one ...

Brown had been convicted of multiple murders, treason against Virginia, and inciting a slave revolt in relation to his raid on an armory in Harpers Ferry. John Brown was an abolitionist who ...

John Brown was known for his raid on Harpers Ferry. His advance on the town started on the evening of Oct. 16, 1859, when he captured two slave owners and freed all of their slaves. The events ...

John Brown, and a ragtag group of 21 called “God’s Army” to raid the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in October 1859. The effort was an attempt to provoke a slave revolt in the Southern ...

(Frank Barthell photo) Six months later, John Brown was found guilty of treason and murder for leading the raid on the ...

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 ...