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Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight.
Carl Borick is director of the Charleston Museum Carl Borick is director of the Charleston Museum The 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding is an ideal opportunity not only to explore how and why the American colonies gained independence from the crown, but also to better understand the human cost of that struggle.
Unlike the war in the north, where Washington and his army lost battle after battle until its tide-changing victory at Trenton on the day after Christmas, South Carolinians achieved a great degree of success in 1776.
They decisively defeated the Royal Navy at the Battle of Sullivan’s Island on June 28 and, over the course of the following year, drove back a Cherokee offensive that began shortly after on the frontiers.
The situation changed dramatically four years later when the British, fielding a much larger force this time, captured Charleston and Gen.