Following the British attack on St. Augustine in 1702, a combined French and Spanish fleet moved to Charles Town, weakened by a yellow fever epidemic. On August 21, a ship arrived at the port city,…

In late summer 1706, a combined force of French and Spanish troops attacked the South Carolina Lowcountry intent on vanquishing the fledgling English colony as Charles Town reeled from a plague of…

"When William L. Pierce of Georgia sat down in Philadelphia to assess his fellow delegates at what would become the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he saw Charles Pinckney as “a young Gentleman…