The state we today call Delaware simultaneously declared its independence not just from Great Britain, but from the state of Pennsylvania.
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During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.