Brown decided to strike at Harpers Ferry, a small town about one hundred kilometers from Washington. It was part of Virginia at that time, but is now located in the state of West Virginia.

布朗决定进攻哈珀斯镇，这是一座距华盛顿只有一百公里左右的小镇，这个小镇在当时属于维吉尼亚州，现在则属于西维吉尼亚州。

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Without firing a shot, Brown now controlled the three places he wanted in Harpers Ferry.

布朗未放一枪就控制了在哈珀斯镇他想控制的三个地方。

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Harpers Ferry was built on a narrow finger of land where the Shenandoah River flowed into the Potomac.

哈珀斯镇建在一个狭窄的地带，雪兰多河流经此地进入波托·马可河。

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He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

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A group of one thousand soldiers went to Harpers Ferry,Virginia, where the Union army had a gun factory and arsenal.

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A few hours after Brown was captured, the Governor of Virginia and three Congressmen arrived in Harpers Ferry.

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While Roosevelt considered himself a progressive, the associations with the raider of Harpers Ferry stained the day in radical tones that would not soon fade.

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