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…
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New interpretative signs for the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill.
One of the new interpretative signs now on the Hobkirk Hill battlefield, in a residential area of Camden, SC. The City of Camden was awarded a major grant to mark the battlefield and develop a tour brochure suitable for the overbuilt residential neighborhood. The signs texts were written by Dr. Jim Piecuch, vetted by Charles B. Baxley,…
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