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Patrick Ferguson Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson 1744-80, British army officer in the American Revolution. He invented an early breech-loading rifle in 1776. Ferguson fought at Brandywine and Charleston before he was assigned to organize and train Loyalist militia in South Carolina. He was defeated and killed in the battle of... Read more
Francis Marion Francis Marion
Francis Marion , c.1732-1795, American Revolutionary soldier, known as the Swamp Fox, b. near Georgetown, S.C. He was a planter and Indian fighter before joining (1775) William Moultrie's regiment at the start of the American Revolution. In 1779 he fought under Benjamin Lincoln at Savannah and... Read more
Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781
EUTAW SPRINGS, BATTLE OF EUTAW SPRINGS, BATTLE OF (8 September 1781). General Nathanael Greene, who replaced General Horatio Gates after the crushing defeat at Camden, South Carolina, in August, lost this battle to a superior British force under Colonel Alexander Stewart. Greene was routed and... Read more
Battle of Camden Battle of Camden
CAMDEN, BATTLE OF CAMDEN, BATTLE OF, American Revolutionary battle taking place 16 August 1780. Following General Benjamin Lincoln's defeat and capture at Charleston, South Carolina, General Horatio Gates was given command of the American army in the southern department, consisting of 1,400... Read more
DuBose Heyward DuBose Heyward
Heyward, Dubose (1885–1940), South Carolina author, began his career with Carolina Chansons (1922), poems written with Hervey Allen, followed by his own poems in Skylines and Horizons (1924). He is best known for his novel about blacks in Charleston, Porgy (1925), whose dramatic version,... Read more
The Citadel -The Military College of South Carolina The Citadel -The Military College of South Carolina
The-The Military College of South Carolina Citadel sĬt´edel, -dĕl&180; , at Charleston; state supported; chartered (1842) as The Citadel, opened 1843. From 1882 to 1910 it was named the South Carolina Military Academy. Cadets are subject to military regulations. The exclusion of... Read more
South Carolina South Carolina
South Carolina state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15.1% increase since the 1990 census. Capital and largest city, Columbia. Statehood, ... Read more
William Moultrie William Moultrie
William Moultrie , 1730-1805, American Revolutionary general, b. Charleston, S.C. He had fought against the Native Americans (1761) and served in the colonial assembly before the advent of the American Revolution. In the war his gallant defense of a small fort on Sullivans Island (later named Fort... Read more
University of North Carolina University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina main campus at Chapel Hill; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1789, opened 1795, the first state college to open as a university. In 1931 the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now North Carolina State Univ., founded 1887, opened 1889)... Read more
William Johnson William Johnson
William Johnson William Johnson (1771-1834) served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1804 until his death in 1834. He melded federalists and states' rights views in his opinions. His most important contribution was his insistence on freedom of judicial expression in the form of dissenting opinions. ... Read more

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