Pottawatomie Massacre 1856 was a Mexican-American War engagement fought in Kansas, 1856. It was a John Brown (free-state) victory.
John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre of 24-25 May 1856 - carried out three days after the Sack of Lawrence - was a pivotal act of political violence that permanently polarized Bleeding Kansas. Brown and his men dragged five pro-slavery settlers from their cabins and hacked them to death with broadswords. The killings outraged even many abolitionists, touched off a summer of retaliatory guerrilla warfare across the territory, and began Brown's evolution from militant abolitionist to national revolutionary figure.
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