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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacredi Thomas Goodrich
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. NF. Good account of Lawrence massacre In the early morning of August 21, 1863 four hundred horsemen rode into the undefended town of Lawrence, Kansas. By the time they left, four hours later, over 150 men and boys had been murdered, the town had been looted and much of it burned to the ground. In Bloody Dawn, Thomas Goodrich tells this story in vivid, sometimes horrifying detail and sets it in the context of the Kansas/Missouri border wars that raged before and during the US Civil War. The attack on Lawrence was cold blooded murder, a brilliant military raid and, for the people of western Missouri, sweet revenge. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill's command, the horrors of that war were brought directly into their homes. The attack began at dawn. When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground. In Bloody Dawn, Thomas Goodrich considers why this remote settlement was signaled out to receive such brutal treatment. He also describes the retribution that soon followed, which in many ways surpassed the significance of the Lawrence Massacre itself. The story that unfolds reveals an event unlike anything our nation has experienced before or since. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)978.1History and Geography North America Western U.S. KansasClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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