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Author_James A. Lewis
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- ISBN 9780873386326
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 162 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 1999
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, a prominent and colorful Charleston merchant, 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 obstacle 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 in operating the frigate.
James A. Lewis, professor of history at Western Carolina University, is the author of Neptune's Militia and The Final Campaign of the American Revolution
