Harper's Ferry
Noun
Meaning
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
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Examples
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
It was formerly Harper's Ferry with an apostrophe and that form continues to appear in some references.
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, now commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson at Harper's Ferry.
They considered that John Brown himself had come to the Eastern Shore to lure slaves away before his ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry in October 1859.