Charleston, SC
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Major General Benjamin Lincoln
The Worst Day
Benjamin Lincoln had been trying to get out of Charleston since April. The siege lines were closing. The British had crossed the Cooper River and cut the last road north. He knew what the arithmetic s...
Modern Voices
What British Lines Meant
When Clinton issued the Philipsburg Proclamation in 1779, he was making a military calculation: the more enslaved people who fled Patriot plantations, the more the Patriot economy would be damaged. Fr...
