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Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution

Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution

Lewis

Hardcover

Military StrategyNaval HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0873386329
ISBN13: 9780873386326
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Oct 27 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
The virtues of the citizen-soldier are prominent in the history of the American Revolution, but less attention has been given to the citizen-sailor. However, there were state navies during the war, the seaward equivalent of the state militias, and the state of South Carolina put to sea the most important of these. Under the leadership of Commodore Alexander Gillon the South Carolina navy secured the services of the largest warship under any American's command, the frigate South Carolina. Built in Holland and designed to combine speed with firepower, this frigate's most notable achievement was the capture of the British Bahamas in 1782 in the only American military maneuver to seize and hold foreign territory outside the borders of the Thirteen Colonies. With success, however, came controversy. At the end of the war, the South Carolina was chased to the ground by three British warships and captured. The state of South Carolina struggled for seventy years to honor the financial obligations incurred in operating the frigate.

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