During the siege, the main body of…

November 1855 CE

During the siege, the main body of the invaders are encamped near the small pro-slavery settlement Franklin, located to the southeast of Lawrence, although others camp near the territorial capital of Lecompton.

The invading army is indifferently armed as a whole, but some men had broken into the United States Arsenal at Liberty, Missouri and stolen guns, cutlasses, the "Old Sacramento Cannon" (which will later be used during the Sacking of Lawrence in 1856), and other munitions of war.

Hearing of the impending raid, the men of Lawrence raise up a militia of eight hundred men.

Dr. Charles L. Robinson (an agent of the New England Emigrant Aid Company) is put in charge of the city's troops, and the future state senator James Lane is appointed as his second-in-command.

Lawrence is also aided by the abolitionist John Brown and his sons.

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