The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783, Volume 4 |
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advance American arrived artillery attack battle brigade British army Camden camp Captain cavalry charge Charlestown City of Charleston Colonel Balfour Colonel Hayne Colonel Lee command Congaree Continental coöperate corps Creek Cruger Cuningham despatched detachment dragoons enemy enemy's Eutaw field force Fort Motte Fort Watson garrison Georgetown Gibbes's Documentary Hist Governor Rutledge Granby Greene Greene's Hampton Hobkirk's Hill Horry horses Ibid infantry Johnson's joined killed Lee's Lee's Legion Legion letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Cornwallis Lord Rawdon Loyalists Maham Major Marion Memoirs ment miles militia Monck's Corner Morgan Motte Moultrie movement Nelson's Ferry Ninety Six North officers Orangeburgh parole party Pickens prisoners Ramsay's Revolution received reënforcement regiment retreat river Royal Gazette Santee sent siege Snow Island soldiers South Carolina Sumter and Marion Sumter MSS surrender taken Tarleton tion Tories town troops Virginia Wade Hampton Washington Wateree Watson Whigs wounded wrote
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Page 574 - ... increased insult, oppression and a vigorous attempt to effect our total destruction. By a late act, all these colonies are declared to be in rebellion and out of the protection of the British crown, our properties...
Page 769 - one of the most distinguished additions to political and social science which this generation has seen. It has done, and will continue to do, a great work in informing the world concerning the principles of this government." — Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. " No enlightened American can desire a better thing for his country than the widest diffusion and the most thorough reading of Mr. Bryce's impartial and penetrating work.
Page 656 - I then possessed about two hundred slaves, and not one of them left me during the war, although they had had great offers ; nay, some were carried down to work on the British lines, yet they always contrived to make their escape and return home. My plantation I found to be a desolate place, — stock of every kind taken off, the furniture carried away, and my estate had been under sequestration.
Page 666 - The permitting any power other than the general assembly of this commonwealth to levy duties or taxes upon the citizens of this state within the same is injurious to its sovereignty, may prove destructive of the rights and liberty of the people, and, so far as congress may exercise the same, is contravening the spirit of the confederation.
Page 562 - A general who is justly entitled, from his many signal services to honorable and singular marks of your approbation and gratitude ; his successes have been more rapid and complete than the most sanguine could have expected ; the enemy, compelled to surrender or evacuate every post which they held in the country, frequently defeated and driven from place to place, are obliged to seek refuge under the walls of Charleston...
Page 575 - I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who had borne arms with us, and...
Page 6 - You have your wish in the officer appointed to the southern command. I think I am giving you a general, but what can a general do, without men, without arms, without clothing, without stores, without provisions ? Lee's corps will also go to the southward.
Page 299 - This party had also entered the enemy's ditch, and began to apply the hook. Uncovering the parapet now would have given us victory ; and such was the vigorous support afforded by the musketry from the third parallel, from the riflemen in the tower, and from the artillery mounted in battery, that sanguine expectations of this happy issue were universally indulged. The moment the bags in front were pulled down, Campbell would have mounted the parapet, where the struggle could not have been long maintained....
Page 36 - ... to retreat, it was the very thing I wished to cut off all hope of. I would have thanked Tarleton had he surrounded me with his cavalry. It would have been better than placing my own men in the rear to shoot down those who broke from the ranks. When men are forced to fight, they will sell their lives dearly; and I knew that the dread of Tarleton's cavalry would give due weight to the protection of my bayonets, and keep my troops from breaking, as Buford's regiment did.
Page 564 - It is with you to determine whether the forfeiture and appropriation of their property should now take place: if such should be your determination, though many of our warmest friends have been reduced for their inflexible attachment to the cause of their country, from opulence to inconceivable distress, and, if the enemy's will and power had prevailed, would have been doomed to indigence and beggary, yet it will redound...