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#HarrietTubman was the first woman to command US troops in battle, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1863. With 150 Black soldiers in three gunboats, the #CombaheeRiverRaid destroyed millions of dollars in #Confederate supplies, burnt plantations, freed 700+ slaves, & she lost no soldiers.

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Harriet Tubman & the Combahee River Raid
There are scant reference of this history of Harriet Tubman in pop culture. The raid was depicted briefly in the epilogue of the 2019 movie Harriet. It was a major plot point in the television show Timeless, in 2018. The raid was covered in a segment on Drunk History in 2015. And the movie Glory in a majo
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Harriet Tubman & the Combahee River Raid

There are scant reference of this history of Harriet Tubman in pop culture. The raid was depicted briefly in the epilogue of the 2019 movie Harriet. It was a major plot point in the television show Timeless, in 2018. The raid was covered in a segment on Drunk History in 2015. And the movie Glory in a major misstep features Tubman's commanding officer Col. James Montgomery butchering his legacy by depicting him as a racist villain (the man fought alongside John Brown) and introduces him by congratulates for the raid with does not even mentions Tubman.

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