Black Tom explosion was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in New Jersey, 1916.
This was an act of German sabotage, not a battle. In the early hours of July 30, 1916, while the United States was still neutral in World War I, a massive series of explosions tore through the Black Tom munitions depot in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal held around two million pounds of ammunition and explosives awaiting shipment to the Allies, and German agents set out to deny those supplies to Britain, France, and Russia. The blast, powerful enough to be felt for many miles and compared to a moderate earthquake, hurled shrapnel across the harbor, shattered windows in Manhattan, and damaged the nearby Statue of Liberty. Property losses ran into the tens of millions of dollars, and several people were killed. Investigators later attributed the attack to German saboteurs, and the incident became a landmark case in the field of foreign sabotage on American soil.
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