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According to the Biography of John Brown by WEB DuBois, he specifically modeled his plans after the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, the OG guerillas (I mean, asymetic warfare is as old as warfare, but the first literal "guerillas"). It almost reads like Mao's Protracted People's War, but in Appalachia. I avoid counterfactuals, but I wonder sometimes what direction the US would've taken had he succeeded in making off with the contents of the armory