Peter Horry (1743 or 1747 – 28 February 1815) was a South Carolina militia leader. On June 12, 1775, the Provincial Congress of South Carolina elected twenty captains…
Isaac Huger (March 19, 1743 – October 17, 1797) was a planter and Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War.==Life and work==Isaac Huger was born at Limerick…
Due to his irregular methods of warfare, he is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States…
William Moultrie (iː; November 23, 1730 – September 27, 1805) was a general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. Later he served as the 35th Governor…
Henry Mouzon II was a distinguished colonial era patriot and renowned civil engineer. He prepared the definitive survey of the North and South Carolina Colonies prior to the…
Pickens was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Scots-Irish immigrants, Andrew Pickens, Sr. and Anne (née Davis). His paternal great-grandparents were Huguenots Robert Andrew Pickens (Robert…
Charles Cotesworth “C. C.” Pinckney (February 25, 1746{spaced ndash}August 16, 1825), was an early American statesman of South Carolina, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.…
Thomas Pinckney (October 23, 1750 – November 2, 1828) was an early American statesman, diplomat and veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.==Early…
Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734–June 1, 1832) was a planter; a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia during the…
George Turner (c. 1750 – March 16, 1843) was an English-born soldier, land speculator, and jurist from South Carolina.Little is known about Turner’s personal life. In the American…