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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: The Great Locomotive Chase
Description: On April 12, 1862, one of the most daring and audacious events of the American Civil War took place.Â
It wasn’t a major battle. It didn’t involve armies meeting each other on the field of battle.Â
Instead, it was one of the first examples in military history of a raid designed to deny the enemy access to the most vital 19th-century technology: the railroad.Â
Learn more about the Great Locomotive Chase and how railroads became a strategic war objective on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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