by editor | Aug 27, 2025 | Archive, Cartoon, Southern Partisan
Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the “Philadelphia” is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History In October 1776, a small American fleet clashed with British warships on Lake Champlain during...
by editor | Jun 2, 2020 | Archive, Cartoon, Southern Partisan
Construction of Charles Town’s first sea wall commenced in early 1704, as part of a massive plan to fortify the entire city. It was truly a civic process — most able-bodied residents helped. And, if they didn’t, they were threatened with jail. The colony’s governing...