by James R. Mc Intyre[1] Haymaker and Humble Cheeks, two beautiful examples of the craftsman’s arts. The top “Pennsylvania” rifle was made in Virginia before 1774; the bottom rifle was made in the Kentucky region of Virginia in 1780. Photo by Mel Hankla. The Pennsylvania longrifle and the men who carried it occupy an ambiguous…
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Battle of Sullivans Island and Breach Inlet – June 21-29, 1776
One of several great contemporaneous maps depicting the British loss of their first attempt to re-capture their colony of South Carolina. The Royal Navy’s attack on the partially completed palmetto log and sand fort on Sullivan’s Island, led by Commodore Sir Peter Parker, failed after hours of bombardment. The soft palmetto log revetments absorbed the damaging…