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TIL that in 1863, when Harriet Tubman was under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid in the Civil War.

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