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The Liberty Arsenal, known by Federal authorities as the Missouri Depot [1] was a United States Army arsenal at Liberty, Missouri in Clay County, Missouri. The depot was seized twice by Southern partisans, once during the Kansas troubles in 1855, and again shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War . [ 2 ]
Carthage is located south of the Spring River along US Route 71. Joplin is approximately twelve miles to the southwest and Neosho is about 17 miles to the south. [15]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.69 square miles (30.28 km 2), of which 11.65 square miles (30.17 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water.
The Liberty Tree in Boston, illustrated in 1825. The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston, Massachusetts near Boston Common in the years before the American Revolution. In 1765, Patriots in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree.
Browning Brothers gun shop, Ogden, Utah Territory, 1882. From left to right: Thomas Samuel Browning, George Emmett Browning, John Moses Browning, Matthew Sandefur Browning, Jonathan Edmund Browning, and Frank Rushton. Browning Arms Company (originally John Moses and Matthew Sandefur Browning Company) is an American marketer of firearms and ...
A few older cities are incorporated under legislative charters (Carrollton, Chillicothe, LaGrange, Liberty, Miami, Missouri City, and Pleasant Hill) which are no longer allowed. (Carthage is also a Charter City and Charter Cities are by constitution not legislation and are still allowed to this day).
Smith and other Mormons continued to be held at Liberty Jail. [32] [35] After a hearing conducted April 9–11, 1839, Smith was indicted by grand jury on the charge of treason. [36] On April 16, 1839, Smith and his companions were permitted to escape custody while they were being escorted to Boone County. [1] [37] Smith fled across the border ...
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The other federal arsenal in Missouri, Liberty Arsenal, had been captured on April 20 (1861) by secessionist militias and, concerned by widespread reports that Governor Jackson intended to use the Missouri Volunteer Militia to also attack the St. Louis Arsenal and capture its 39,000 small arms, Secretary of War Simon Cameron ordered Lyon (by ...