If only a gorget and a fort made of palmetto logs could stop the choking today as in 1776
(Written July 4, 2013)
Happy Independence Day! One of many reasons Americans can commemorate the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July (the signing actually took place weeks later) occurred the week before in Charleston, South Carolina, when American rebels led by Colonel William Moultrie defeated the British in the Battle of ...