Sacking of Lawrence

Quando

21 de mai. de 1856

Tipo

Operação militar

Coordenadas

38.96° N, 95.25° W

Description

1856 destruction of the Kansas Territory town

1856 destruction of the Kansas Territory town

The sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town that had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state. The incident fueled the irregular conflict in Kansas Territory that later became known as Bleeding Kansas.

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