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Episodes tagged "Militia": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. A Wild Night: Pittsburgh "Great Strikers" Burn Rail Yard
    date July 19, 1877 to July 23, 1877map ALLEGHENY, Pennsylvaniatags Labor Strike, Labor Union, Militia

    In her memoirs, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones described the night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that strikers from the Pennsylvania Railroad turned the "Great Strike" of 1877 into a riot. "Hundreds of box cars standing on the tracks were soaked with oil and set on fire and sent down the tracks to the roundhouse. The roundhouse caught fire. Over one hundred locomotives belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad...

  2. The American Highlanders Storm Chapultepec Castle
    date September 15, 1847 to September 16, 1847map CAMBRIA, Pennsylvaniatags Seige, Militia

    The American Highlanders stormed Chapultepec Castle on September 15, 1847, a strategic and crucial battle that helped to begin the US Campaign in Mexico. In General Geary's Report of September 15, at which time he commanded the 2nd Pennsylvania, he detailed his own experience of the battle and that of each of his companies. Geary was struck with grape shot early in the battle and could not follow...