Category: Revolutionary War
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TODAY IN SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY: The Patriot with Mel Gibson
On June 30, 2000, The Patriot, a feature film starring Mel Gibson, is released in theaters. Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, an American swept up in the Revolutionary War when a sadistic British officer murders Martin’s son. The script writer Robert Rodat claims that Benjamin Martin is a composite character based on four different historical people, one…
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Letter from General Nathanael Greene to Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox
On April 24, 1781, General Nathanael Greene sent the following letter to Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. Written and sent from his camp in Camden, Greene wrote: When I consider how much you have done and suffered, and under what difficulties you have maintained your ground, I am at a loss which to admire most,…
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TODAY IN DARLINGTON COUNTY HISTORY
On March 12, 1785, statewide efforts finally culminated in the passing of the County Court Act, which created Darlington County.