It is out now.
Posted on 06/28/2008 4:40:54 AM PDT by PeaRidge
This is Carolina Day, the 232nd anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sullivan. If you are not a native of South Carolinian (and possibly even if you are), you likely have never heard of Fort Sullivan and the significance of this day.
Most American school children have heard stirring stories of the battles of Concord Bridge and Lexington Green, relatively minor skirmishes fought by the Minutemen of Revolutionary lore. These were fought in April 1775, and at Concord Bridge was fired the "shot heard 'round the world." But it was at an unfinished, palmetto-log fort on Sullivan's Island where the cannon shots heard 'round the world were fired. There, 425 Americans fought off a British invasion fleet of 20 ships, foiling an early attempt to occupy Charleston, then the largest and most important city in the colonies south of Philadelphia.
(Excerpt) Read more at charleston.net ...
All we got was a horrible Mel Gibson movie that was full of historical errors.
The HBO series on John Adams was fantastic and is set to be released on DVD soon.
Must have been an ancestor of John F'n Kerry. I wonder if he also got a purple heart for this?
the palmetto logs used in the walls of the fort were so spongey, they absorbed the shock of the cannonballs during the bombardment.
actually, he went on to achieve immortality as Spider Man.
Shot in the ass and we’re to blame,we give war a bad name.
No, they haven't. :(
It is out now.
In the 50s, 60s and early 70s they did.
But not anymore.
A small part of the general dumbing down, doncha know.
History channel also has a long running series called “The Revolution”.
I heard that “John Adams” series on HBO was pretty damn incredible. I can’t wait to see it.
That picture would date from the Civil War showing the guns at Fort Moultrie firing on the Union Ships. It was built on the site of Fort Sullivan but Fort Sullivan was constructed of the logs of Palmetto trees, not brick like the fort shown. That is why the Palmetto tree is shown on the SC state flag.
It was good entertainment -- IT WAS NOT INTENDED, AND NEVER CLAIMED, TO BE A DOCUMENTARY.
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Thank you. I was able to tape it and then convert it to DVD. I am having my 14 year old son watch it this summer and write a report on each episode.
The History channel series was very good.
A small part of the general dumbing down, doncha know.
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And a truly fine job of dumbing down is what they have done! I recently had a conversation with a young man in his mid-twenties who (as seems to be fairly typical now) is working at a job that could have been done in the fifties by a high school dropout had there been computers to operate in the fifties. He is a fine young fellow and holds a degree from a local “University”. I asked him a few questions about government and history and most of them were beyond his knowledge, some he answered correctly but seemed to be guessing. I then indulged in a great cruelty! I informed him that everything I asked him about involved what were elementary school studies in the fifties and were all things I had to know to advance beyond the seventh grade and they were so drilled into me that I could not possibly forget most of them if I tried to. I doubt that anything less than the final stages of alzheimer’s could make me forget yet college graduates do not know these things now! Young people who know nothing of the history of the country may be expected to vote for Obamalamadingdong because they have no way of knowing better.
My childhood home, I grew up right next to the fort and lived there 10 years.
One of my favorite places in the world, though I haven’t been there in 8 years.
Saw a very small house listed there for 800k recently, most homes there are in the 1.5-3+ million dollar range now.
Thanks for posting!
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