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Huger, Isaac -1797
Military officer; born on Limerick Plantation, S. C., March 19, 1742.
He and his four brothers—Daniel, John, Francis, and Benjamin—were distinguished in the struggle for independence, the latter falling in the lines at Charleston, May 11, 1780.
They were of Huguenot descent.
Isaac was in the Cherokee expedition in 1760, and entered the patriot army of South Carolina as lieutenant-colonel in June, 1775.
He rose to brigadier-general in January, 1779, for active and gallant services.
In the attack on Savannah, in the fall of that year, he led the Georgia and South Carolina militia.
His force was defeated and dispersed by Tarleton at Monk's Corner, S. C. He distinguished himself under Greene, especially at Guilford and Hobkirk's Hill (q. v.). He died in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 17, 1
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