harpers in English

noun
1
a musician, especially a folk musician, who plays a harp.
Irish harpers used their fingernails on the wire strings of their harps, again probably near the soundboard.
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1. Aunt Polly, Mary and the Harpers threw themselves upon them... "

2. After his attack on Harpers Ferry, the south spoke with one voice.

3. Scarce Antique HARPERS FERRY US M1819 Hall INFANTRY Rifle .52 Caliber 1831 1st American Military Breech loader! Description: Scarce Antique HARPERS FERRY US M1819 Hall INFANTRY Rifle .52 Caliber 1831 1st American Military Breech loader! Here we present a U.S

4. McClellan requested permission from Washington to evacuate Harpers Ferry and attach its garrison to his army, but his request was refused.

5. In the Battle of Harpers Ferry, Jackson placed artillery on the heights overlooking the town, forcing the surrender of the garrison of more than 12,000 men on September 15.

6. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.

7. Ancyra (Aγκύρα). A city of Galatia, in Asia Minor, originally the chief city of a Gallic tribe named the Tectosages, who came from the south of France. - Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities.

8. When Hooker got into a dispute with Army headquarters over the status of defensive forces in Harpers Ferry, he impulsively offered his resignation in protest, which was quickly accepted by Lincoln and General-in-chief Henry W. Halleck.

9. Definition of Breechloader : a firearm that loads at the breech The first really satisfactory American Breechloader was developed at Harpers Ferry by Christian Sharps, whose superior gun helped make the word sharpshooter a common American noun

10. John Brown, (born May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia [now in West Virginia]), militant American Abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War (1861–65).