Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad ... on the Civil War battlefield. After she led a successful raid of a Confederate outpost in South Carolina that ...
When Harriet Tubman Helped Lead a Civil War Raid That Freed 750 People
With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...
Shrewsbury Township’s Blue Ball Inn hosted many historical events
A strong oral tradition ties Lafayette’s visit to the Blue Ball Inn, on the Old York Road south of Shrewsbury. That tale of ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War
Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.
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Fighting in Sudan’s civil war sets ablaze the country’s largest oil refinery, satellite photos show
The al-Jaili refinery sits some 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Khartoum ... amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in ...
This US President Said Canada Would Fall Like ‘Easy Prey.’ It Wasn’t Donald Trump.
The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex Canada and ...
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10 Civil War Sites Every History Buff Needs to See
The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and ...
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Hope for railroad overpass, safer crossings moves ahead with $1 million federal grant
A local effort to seek a railroad overpass at Ash Road has just ... stretch of the Norfolk Southern Railway parallel to and just south of Lincoln Way/Indiana 933 near the St. Joseph-Elkhart ...
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South Shore eyes state help avoiding 'fiscal cliff'
The South Shore Line heads into 2025 with a need to plug a post-COVID budget hole that railroad leaders hope can be filled with a combination of increased state assistance, higher passenger fares ...
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North Korea prepares to send more troops to Russia after suffering casualties, South Korea says
South Korea’s military said Friday it suspects North Korea is preparing to send additional troops to Russia after its soldiers fighting in the Russian-Ukraine war suffered heavy casualties.
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Airstrike kills at least 70 seeking care at last functioning hospital in North Darfur capital as Sudan’s civil war rages
At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur ... Sudan’s 20-month civil war - a brutal power ...