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The ■well-known raid of John Brown upon Har-per’s Ferry , Virginia, for the purpose of freeingslaves by force of arms, occurred on the evening ofSunday, the 17tli of October, 1859. His party,including himself and five negroes (three of whomwere fugitive slaves), consisted of 22 men, three ofwhom remained at the rendezvous on the Maryland
side of the Potomac . The others crossed by thebridge and seized the United States armory andarsenal, and during the next eighteen hours werebusy in arousing slaves, cutting telegraph wires,providing defenses against attack, and imprisoningcitizens. They were at last besieged in the engine-house by a large number of citizens and militia, to