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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 15 : (search)
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 32 : (search)
Chapter 32:
Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord continued: Ticonderoga taken.
May, 1775.
the people of South Carolina, who had hoped relief
Chap. XXXII.} 1775.
May. through the discontinuance of importations from Britain, did not falter on learning the decision of parliament.
On the instant, Charles Pinckney, using power intrusted to him by the provincial congress, appointed a committee of five to place the colony in a state of defence; on the twenty-first of April, the very night after their organization, men of Charleston, without disguise, under their direction, seized all the powder in the public magazines, and removed eight hundred stand of arms and other military stores from the royal arsenal.
The tidings from Lexington induced the general committee to hasten the meeting of the provincial congress; whose members, on the second of June, Henry Laurens being their president, associated themselves for defence against every foe; ready to sacrifice their lives