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He believed in the proslavery cause and became a border ruffian in the violence of the Bleeding Kansas era. After five proslavery settlers were brutally murdered by John Brown as part of the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856, Pate set out to capture Brown. He and his men encountered Brown near Palmyra in Douglas County on June 2, 1856. For several hours the two sides engaged in armed combat at what became known as the Battle of Black Jack. Brown and another freestater, Edwin V. Sumner, captured Pate along with some of his troops. The Battle of Black Jack is sometimes called the first battle of the Civil War.
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Henry Clay Pate1833, Apr 211856
 
18641864, May 11
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega...
John Brown [3]1800, May 91820
 
18591859, Dec 2
 an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to over...
Henry Butler Stoney18161850
 
18591894
 a British army officer; Major, 40th Regiment and writer.
Lewis Cass1782, Oct 91806
 
18601866, Jun 17
 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St...
Winfield Scott1786, Jun 131807
 
18611866, May 29
 a United States Army general and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. K...
Sam Houston1793, Mar 21812
 
18611863, Jul 26
 an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United Sta...
Robert O'Hara Burke1821, May 61841
 
18611861, Jun 28 ca
 an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the lead...
David Atchison1807, Aug 111829
 
18621886, Jan 26
 a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tem...
John Hanning Speke1827, May 41844
 
18641864, Sep 15
 an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is...
John Joseph Abercrombie1798, Mar 41822
 
18651877, Jan 3
 a career United States Army officer who served in numerous wars, finally reaching the rank of bri...
Ethan A. Hitchcock1798, May 181817
 
18671870, Aug 5
 a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, ...
Sir James Brooke1803, Apr 291819
 
18681868, Jun 11
 a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first ...
Antoine-Henri Jomini1779, Mar 61798
 
18691869, Mar 24
 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o...
Sir Edward Sabine1788, Oct 141818
 
18711883, Jun 26
 an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the...
John W. Geary1819, Dec 301841
 
18731873, Feb 8
 an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was ...
John C. Breckinridge1821, Jan 161841
 
18751875, May 17
 a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in bo...
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807, Jul 41833
 
18791882, Jun 2
 an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. H...
Alfred Horsford18181833
 
18801885, Sep 13
 a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary. Born in Bath and educated at ...
Ambrose Burnside1824, May 231843
 
18811881, Sep 13
 an American soldier, railroad-executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Islan...
John C. Fremont1813, Jan 211833
 
18901890, Jul 13
 an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti...
Richard Burton1821, Mar 191842
 
18901890, Oct 20
 a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologi...
Major Ridge1771 ca1790
 
1921839
 a Cherokee leader, a member of the tribal council, and a lawmaker. As a warrior, he fought in the...
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