Tag: South Carolina

Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument, SC)

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- Revolutionary War Series - - Civil War Series - Fort Moultrie—built to defend South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor—has played an important role in several of America’s conflicts. First, under the leadership of Revolutionary Colonel William Moultrie, it fought off a British assault in 1776, and decades later, helped deter the British threat again during the …

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Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, SC

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- Revolutionary War Series - Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina commemorates the life of a “forgotten founder” who helped shape the American political system following the Revolutionary War. Most famous for writing 25 clauses of the U.S. Constitution, Charles Pinckney was a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican and a favorite son of South …

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