One of Delaware’s biggest roles in the Civil War proved to be an unkonwn fact during Monday’s Tournament of Champions episode of ‘Jeopardy!’.
In the category of “U.S. States” contestants had 30 seconds to come up with a question to the answer “This border state produced about half of the gunpowder for the Union.”
According to a biography posted by Hagley Museum, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was encouraged by Thomas Jeffeson to develop a gun powder plant, which set up along the Brandywine River north of Wilmington…