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Sullivan's Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
lis on the best means of gaining possession of Sullivan's Island; and both agreed that they could not more effeand, which was represented to communicate with Sullivan's Island at low water by a ford, and with the main by aamining its fortifications, he crossed over to Sullivan's Island, where he found a good stock of powder; a fort yet Lee proposed to Rutledge to withdraw from Sullivan's Island and abandon it without a blow. Had he acted i Lee, being told that a bridge of retreat from Sullivan's Island to Haddrell's Point was impossible, and not beon his arrangement for taking the batteries on Sullivan's Island; and on the sixteenth he communicated it to Clt Clinton intended only to occupy and garrison Sullivan's Island. For that end, consulting with Cornwallis, hertainly rise on their officers; the battery on Sullivan's Island would not discharge two rounds. This opinion voice, spontaneously decreed that the post on Sullivan's Island should, for all future time, be known as Fort
Jasper, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
e bravest veterans, they stuck to their guns with the greatest constancy. Hit by a ball which entered through an embrasure, Macdaniel cried out to his brother soldiers: I am dying, but don't let the cause of liberty expire with me this day. Jasper removed the mangled corpse from the sight of his comrades, and cried aloud: Let us revenge that brave man's death. The slow, intermitted fire which was skilfully directed against the commodore and the brave seamen on board the Bristol, shatternew-born commonwealth; Chap. LXVI.} 1776. July. and when, in the name of South Carolina, he returned thanks to the defenders, his burning words gushed forth with an eloquence that adequately expressed the impassioned gratitude of the people. To Jasper he offered a lieutenant's commission, which Jasper modestly declined, accepting only a sword. South Carolina, by her president and the common voice, spontaneously decreed that the post on Sullivan's Island should, for all future time, be known
Gadsden (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
with transports of gratitude; they gazed admiringly on the uninjured walls of the fortress, the ruinous marks of the enemy's shot on every tree and hut in its neighborhood; they enjoyed the sight of the wreck of the Acteon, the discomfited men-of-war riding at anchor at two and a half miles' distance; they laughed at the commodore's broad pendant, scarcely visible on a jury maintopmast, while their own blue flag crowned the merlon. Letters of congratulation came down from Rutledge and from Gadsden; and Lee gave his witness, that no men ever did behave better, or ever Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 30. could behave better. On the afternoon of the thirtieth Lee reviewed the garrison, and renewed to them the praise that was their due. While they were thus drawn out, the women of Charleston presented to the second regiment a pair of silken colors, one of blue, one of red, richly embroidered by their own hands; and Susanna Smith Elliott, a scion of one of the oldest families of the colony,
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
h on trust. On the morning of the ninth of June, Charles Lee, attended by his aides-de-camp, and by Robert Howe of North Carolina, arrived at Haddrell's Point. After examining its fortifications, he crossed over to Sullivan's Island, where he fougreat; he had power from the Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. general congress to order, and he had ordered battalions from North Carolina and Virginia; his presence was a constant pledge of the active sympathy of the continent; and on his arrival he was ihich in that clime drops from the clouds in gushes, interrupted their toil. On the eleventh the two regiments from North Carolina arrived. That same day Lee, being told that a bridge of retreat from Sullivan's Island to Haddrell's Point was imposaway. The whole loss of the. British fleet, in killed and wounded, was two hundred and five. The royal governors of North Carolina and of South Carolina, as well as Clinton and Cornwallis, and seven regiments, were witnesses of the defeat. The co
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ost unprovoked and wicked rebellion within South Carolina, the succession of crimes of its inhabitand the command. The battalions raised in South Carolina were not as yet placed upon the continentad a body of Indians raised on the back of South Carolina; and a Chap. LXVI.} 1776 June. body of roonishing terror and affright. He reported South Carolina to be in a mutinous state that delighted hnsylvania, but from childhood a citizen of South Carolina, a man of rare worth in private life, brava regiment, two hundred more of the men of South Carolina under Horry; and the raccoon company of ri oppressions weighed down the industry of South Carolina; she came forth to the Chap. LXVI.} 1776.e royal governors of North Carolina and of South Carolina, as well as Clinton and Cornwallis, and seXVI.} 1776. July. and when, in the name of South Carolina, he returned thanks to the defenders, his estly declined, accepting only a sword. South Carolina, by her president and the common voice, sp[3 more...]
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
fifth the squadron was increased by the arrival of the Experiment, a ship of sixty guns, which passed the bar on the twenty sixth. Letters of encouragement came also from Tonyn, then governor of East Florida, who was impatient for an attack on Georgia; he would have had a body of Indians raised on the back of South Carolina; and a Chap. LXVI.} 1776 June. body of royalists to terrify and distract, so that the assault at Charleston would have struck an astonishing terror and affright. He repremaining still longer to refit. The success of the Carolinians was due to the wisdom and adequateness of their preparations. It saved not a post but a province. It kept seven regiments away from New York for two months; it gave security to Georgia, and three years peace to Carolina; it dispelled throughout the South the dread of British superiority; it drove the loyalists into shameful obscurity. It was an announcement to the other colonies of the existence of South Carolina as a selfdir
Orangeburg, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ultrie, whose faculties, under the outward show of imperturbable and even indolent calm, were strained Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. to their utmost tension, rode to visit his advanced guard on the east. Here the commander, William Thomson, of Orangeburg, of Irish descent, a native of Pennsylvania, but from childhood a citizen of South Carolina, a man of rare worth in private life, brave and intelligent as an officer, had, at the extreme point, posted fifty of the militia behind sand-hills and myrtle bushes. A few hundred yards in the rear breastworks had been thrown up, which he guarded with three hundred riflemen of his own regiment from Orangeburg and its neighborhood, with two hundred of Clark's North Carolina regiment, two hundred more of the men of South Carolina under Horry; and the raccoon company of riflemen. On his left he was protected by a morass; on his right by one eighteen pounder and one brass six pounder, which overlooked the spot where Clinton would wish to land.
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
rleston, for the tenth or eleventh time, charged Moultrie to finish the bridge for his retreat, promised him reinforcements, which were never sent, and still meditated removing him from his command; while Moultrie, whose faculties, under the outward show of imperturbable and even indolent calm, were strained Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. to their utmost tension, rode to visit his advanced guard on the east. Here the commander, William Thomson, of Orangeburg, of Irish descent, a native of Pennsylvania, but from childhood a citizen of South Carolina, a man of rare worth in private life, brave and intelligent as an officer, had, at the extreme point, posted fifty of the militia behind sand-hills and myrtle bushes. A few hundred yards in the rear breastworks had been thrown up, which he guarded with three hundred riflemen of his own regiment from Orangeburg and its neighborhood, with two hundred of Clark's North Carolina regiment, two hundred more of the men of South Carolina under Horry
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
red a lieutenant's commission, which Jasper modestly declined, accepting only a sword. South Carolina, by her president and the common voice, spontaneously decreed that the post on Sullivan's Island should, for all future time, be known as Fort Moultrie; her assembly crowned her victorious sons with applause. The tidings leaped from colony to colony on their way to the North, and the continental congress voted their thanks to Lee, Moultrie, Thomson, and the officers and men under their commsland should, for all future time, be known as Fort Moultrie; her assembly crowned her victorious sons with applause. The tidings leaped from colony to colony on their way to the North, and the continental congress voted their thanks to Lee, Moultrie, Thomson, and the officers and men under their command. But at the time of that vote, congress was no more the representative of dependent colonies; the victory at Fort Moultrie was the bright morning star and harbinger of American Independence.
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
Gladdened by seeing the frigates thus entangled, the beholders in the town were swayed alternately by fears and hopes; the armed inhabitants stood every one at his post, uncertain but that they might be called to immediate action, hardly daring to believe that Moultrie's small and ill-furnished garrison could beat off the squadron, when behold! his flag disappears from their eyes. Fearing that his colors had been struck, they prepared to meet the invaders at the water's edge, trusting in Providence and preferring death to slavery. In the fort, William Jasper, a sergeant, perceived that the flag had been cut down by a ball from the enemy, and had fallen over the ramparts. Colonel, said he to Moultrie, don't let us fight without a flag. What can you do? asked Moultrie; the staff is broken off. Then, said Jasper, I'll fix it on a halberd, and place it on the merlon of the bastion next the enemy; and leaping through an embrasure, and braving the Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. 28.
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