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On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The gunboat was built quickly using iron nails and fasteners, which later oxidized in the water.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
Instead of being described as a ransom payment, the debt and the French king’s gunboat extortion were framed as emancipating the slaves who, after defeating the world’s most powerful army, declared the new nation of Haiti on Jan. 1, 1804.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The gunboat was built quickly using iron nails and fasteners, which later oxidized in the water.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
Instead of being described as a ransom payment, the debt and the French king’s gunboat extortion were framed as emancipating the slaves who, after defeating the world’s most powerful army, declared the new nation of Haiti on Jan. 1, 1804.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Gunboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunboat. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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gunboat
noun
gun·boat
ˈgən-ˌbōt 
: a small lightly armed ship for use in shallow waters
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