Forgotten Terrorist Bombings in America: The History of Some of the Earliest Attacks in the United States by Charles River Editors
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Overview: Bombs have been around for centuries. The military units called “Grenadiers” in European armies used throwable black powder bombs, early versions of what today are called grenades. They were heavy, so Grenadiers were tall, strong soldiers able to throw grenades for a distance. Terrorism has been around for many centuries, most infamously the period called The Terror (1793-94) in the French Revolution. However, the combination of bombs and terrorism is considerably more recent, dating to the 1870s and 1880s.
Black powder had been used occasionally for terrorism before the 1800s, with the most famous incident being the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. Fawkes used barrels of gunpowder rather than a bomb in the modern sense. Terrorism was nothing new in the United States, where, for example, tarring and feathering of Loyalists during the American Revolution was a terror technique designed to quell Tory sentiments. However, terrorists using bombs to accomplish political ends in the United States goes back only about 150 years. That’s partly a result of the rise of political movements seeing violence as legitimate, and partly the result of the development of dynamite.
In the United States, the first terrorist bombs, so far as is known, began to appear in the 1880s. Mines and booby traps had been used by Confederate agents in the Civil War, in attempts both to cause military damage, sabotage and to panic civilian populations. Late in the war, Confederate agents operating out of Canada plotted arson in New York City, but their tools did not much resemble bombs, and anyway failed.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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