The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today...
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The Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, also known as the Siege of Charleston Harbor, the Siege of Fort Wagner, or the Battle of Morris Island, took place...
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units and commanders fought in the Siege of Charleston Harbor of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. The following...
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Francis Marion (category American people of French descent)
the early spring of 1780 and laid siege to Charleston. Marion was not captured with the rest of the city's garrison when Charleston capitulated on May...
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South Carolina in the American Revolution (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from January 2024)
South Carolina and left for the safety of the British warship Tamar in the Charleston Harbor. Throughout the course of the American Revolutionary War, over...
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Colleton Bastion was located near the intersection of Water and Meeting Streets. During the Siege of Charleston, the British had to contend with Fort Johnson...
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history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical...
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Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston...
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Army units and commanders fought in the Siege of Charleston Harbor of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. The following...
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unsuccessful in taking the town, and was forced to lift the siege when Lord Rawdon approached from Charleston with British troops. The area is now protected as...
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Battle of Charleston or Siege of Charleston can refer to several battles: The Charles Town expedition (4 September - 11 September 1706) During the War of the...
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order of battle for the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor (also known as the Siege of Charleston Harbor) includes: Second Battle of Charleston Harbor...
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The reduction of Fort Macon two weeks later confirmed this. Later experiences at the campaign against Charleston Harbor and the siege of Petersburg showed...
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (redirect from Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl, Viscount Brome, Baron Cornwallis of Eye Cornwallis)
the end of 1779, Henry Clinton and Cornwallis transported a large force south and initiated the second siege of Charleston during the spring of 1780, which...
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Ferguson rifle (category Rifles of the United Kingdom)
the American Revolutionary War at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and possibly at the Siege of Charleston in 1780. Its superior firepower was unappreciated...
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following the Siege of Charleston. It was the site where news of the United States Declaration of Independence was announced to Charleston citizens in 1776...
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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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2nd South Carolina Regiment (category South Carolina regiments of the Continental Army)
Colour, and the Siege of Charleston. The regiment was captured by the British Army at Charleston on May 12, 1780, together with the rest of the Southern...
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Peter Timothy (category Members of the South Carolina General Assembly)
would be damaged or confiscated, there were periods of time, such as during the Siege of Charleston when he had suspended publishing. He was taken prisoner...
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Heinrich Julius von Kospoth (category Hessian military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
of Breslau. and Ludwig von Kospoth (1757–1787 Regiments Landgraf and Lengercke). Kospoth served with General Henry Clinton at the siege of Charleston...
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Tom Berenger (category American people of Irish descent)
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in Platoon (1986). He is also known for playing...
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Nathaniel Gist (category People of Maryland in the American Revolution)
the Siege of Charleston in May 1780. After the war, he took an American wife Judith Cary Bell (1750–1833) and the couple had four daughters, one of whom...
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Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South...
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Encyclopedia of the American Revolution'. D. McKay Company. ISBN 978-0679504405. Borick, Carl P. (2003). A Gallant Defense: the Siege of Charleston, 1780. University...
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is also sometimes referred to as the first siege of Charleston, owing to a more successful British siege in 1780. The British organized an expedition...
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Benjamin Lincoln (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
British army, he oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 siege of Charleston, and, as George Washington's second in command, he formally...
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Siege of Charleston, May 12, 1780. Disbanded November 15, 1783). 2nd South Carolina Regiment (Reauthorized September 16, 1776. Captured in Siege of Charleston...
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Andrew Pickens (congressman) (category Members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves)
the recruitment of the Loyalists. However, when the British defeated the Southern Continental Army in 1780 in the Siege of Charleston, Pickens surrendered...
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one of many such confrontations after the Siege of Yorktown to occur before the British evacuated Charleston in December 1782. Lieutenant Colonel John...
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King's American Regiment (category Infantry regiments of the British Army)
1780–1781, the 1780 Siege of Charleston, the 1781 raids on Newport and Richmond, Virginia, and the 1781 Campaigns in Province of Georgia and East Florida...
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