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The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today Charleston), the capital of South Carolina, between March 29 and May 12, 1780.
The Battle of Sullivan's Island was a 1776 battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place near Charleston, South Carolina.During the battle, the flagpole holding the regimental colors was destroyed by enemy gunfire, and Sergeant William Jasper climbed the ramparts while under enemy fire and held up the flag until it could be reattached.
The Charles Town expedition (4 September - 11 September 1706) During the War of the Spanish Succession; The Siege of Charleston (29 March - 12 May 1780) during the American Revolutionary War; The Battle of Charleston (1861) (19 August 1861), a battle in Missouri during the American Civil War also known as the Battle of Bird's Point
The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. It took place near Charleston, South Carolina, during the first British attempt to capture the city from American forces. It is also sometimes referred to as the first siege of Charleston, owing to a more successful ...
Black, Olivia Williams. "The 150-Year War: The Struggle to Create and Control Civil War Memory at Fort Sumter National Monument" Public Historian (2016) 38#4: 149–166. DOI: 10.1525/tph.2016.38.4.149. Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 400. ISBN 9780156007412., Book (par view) Doubleday, Abner (1998). Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860–61. Charleston, SC: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company. ISBN 1-877853-40-2. Lewis, Emanuel Raymond (1979).
John A. Logan, a politician and former U.S. Army general during the Civil War, advocated for the government to create a national day of remembrance for fallen Civil War soldiers.
Battle of Trois-Rivières: June 8, 1776: Quebec: British victory: Patriots forced to evacuate Quebec [26] Battle of Sullivan's Island: June 28, 1776: South Carolina: Patriot victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed [27] Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet: June 29, 1776: New Jersey: Patriot victory [28] Battle of Gwynn's Island: July 8–10 ...