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OSAWATOMIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 344 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSAWATOMIE , a See also:

city of See also:Miami See also:county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., about 45 M. S. by W. of Kansas City, on the See also:Missouri Pacific railway. Pop. (1900) 4191 (227 negroes); (1905, See also:state See also:census) 4857; (1910) 4046. A state See also:hospital for the insane (1866) is about x m. N.E. of the city. The region is a See also:good one for See also:general farming, and natural See also:gas and See also:petroleum are found in abundance in the vicinity. Osawatomie was settled about 1854 by colonists sent by the Emigrant Aid See also:Company, and was platted in 1855 its name was coined from parts of the words " Osage " and " Pottawatomie." It was the See also:scene of two of the " battles " of the " Border See also:War," and of much of the See also:political violence resulting from the clashes between the "See also:pro-See also:slavery " and the " See also:free-state " factions of Missouri and Kansas. On the 7th of See also:June 1856 it was plundered by about 170 pro-slavery men from Missouri. On the 3oth of See also:August 1856 General See also:John W. See also:Reid, commanding about 400 Missourians, attacked the See also:town. The attack was resisted by See also:Captain John See also:Brown (who had come to Osawatomie in the autumn of 1855) at the See also:head of about 40 men, who were soon overpowered.

Of Captain Brown's men, four were killed and two were executed. The town was looted and practically destroyed. A See also:

park commemorating the See also:battle was dedicated here on the 31st of August 1910.

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