VOA慢速英语 美国历史系列:布朗在哈普斯渡口发动袭击

　　Harpers Ferry was built on a narrow finger of land where the Shenandoah River flowed into the Potomac. There was a bridge across each river. Brown organized his attack from across the Potomac, in Maryland.

　　This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Jack Moyles continue the story of John Brown and his raid on Harpers Ferry.

　　VOICE ONE:

　　With his force of less than twenty men, John Brown moved through the darkness down to the bridge that crossed the Potomac River.

　　Two men left the group to cut the telegraph lines east and west of Harpers Ferry.

　　At the bridge, Brown's men surprised a railroad guard. They told him he was their prisoner. The guard thought they were joking until he saw their guns.

　　Once across the bridge, Brown and his men moved quickly. They captured a few people in the street and another guard at the front gate of the government armory. They seized the armory, then crossed the street and seized the supply center. Millions of dollars' worth of military equipment was kept there.

　　VOICE TWO:

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