MORE LOCAL HISTORY VIA BRIAN HICKS

Posted By Bill Payer on Jun 7, 2020 | 0 comments


The latest (eighth) of Brian Hicks’ columns on local history deals with the Yamassee War.

“On Easter weekend 1715, Yamassee Indians attacked a number of isolated plantations around Port Royal, killing more than 100 settlers in a single day.

When word reached Charles Town, the colonists were both horrified and unsurprised. The tensions that led to the Yamassee War had been building for a long time.”

Read the Post & Courier column by clicking here

By I, Pfly, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2323129

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