For six weeks, the city held off enemy troops, fighting the longest siege of the war to preserve the freedom of a newly founded nation.
Now, thousands of people walk the site every day without even realizing it is a battlefield — the largest in South Carolina — or the role it played in the holiday the country celebrates today.
“I’m always amazed when I give tours that people don’t realize there was a major battle here in 1780,” said Carl Borick, assistant director of the Charleston Museum and author of “A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780.
“The siege is important. It was the largest battle in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.”
I was pleased to hear the town of Moncks Corner mentioned as important, first time for any time I’ve ever heard it right there on the TV. LoL.
Grandmother.
Savannah also was captured. There Revolutionary War in the South is of no cosequence to text book writers.
To the contrary, Pb. The war was wonin the South. Greene’s campaign forced Cornwallis to withdraw and set up Yorktown. The final piece was deGrasse’s victory over the British navy in the Battle of the Capes, which prevented reinforcements from reaching the Brits.