As well as the complexities of this Colombian ecosystem between the guerrillas, the military Special Forces, indigenous belief systems, Catholicism?
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
Its most explosive event was Quantrill’s Raid in August 1863, when a group of Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill laid waste to Lawrence and killed upward of 200 people, some of them as young as 13 years old.
Integrated blue force tracking allows soldiers to pinpoint the exact positions of teammates, not just as dots on a map, but within buildings or terrain features.
Local sheriffs and former Confederate soldiers were regularly among their ranks, and their actions helped lay the groundwork for the modern relationship between law enforcement, racial control, and political power in the South.
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