The American Revolution's Battle of Hanging Rock

From the American Battlefield Trust August 2021 calendar.

A picture by Brian Keeley accompanies the calendar page.

HANGING ROCK, S.C.

172 acres saved.

The site of a surprise attack on a British outpost by Patriot militia on August 6, 1780, Hanging Rock will be a new battlefield park along the Liberty Trail.

This innovative driving route -- planned in cooperation with the South Carolina Battlefield Trust -- will more fully tell the story of America's fight for independence in the Southern Theater.

With the support of the American Battlefield Protection Program, the South Carolina Conservation Bank and Lancaster County, 172 acres have been preserved here.

I am so happy that the Civil War Battlefield trust has expanded its aims to protect the battlefields from the other two wars fought on American soil, The American Revolution and the War of 1812.

--Brock-Perry

Horse Island Light

Earlier this month I wrote about Horse Island by Sackets Harbor, New York, and then wrote about the First Battle of Sackets Harbor.

From Wikipedia.

In July 2017, the 24-acre Horse Island was acquired by the Civil War Trust, which has enlarged its efforts to include War of 1812 and American Revolution site preservation.  This was the first grant in the United States made for a War of 1812 site under the National Park Service battlefield grants program.

During the War of 1812, the British used the island as a staging area and the Second Battle of Sackets Harbor took place here.  (I guess I'll have to write about this battle next.)

Because of its location by Sackets Harbor, on March 3, 1831, Congress authorized $4,000 for a lighthouse on Horse Island.  A new one was built in 1870.

--Brock-Perry

Civil War Trust Purchases War of 1812 Historic Land in Sackets Harbor

It is great that this organization, which, of course, does so much to preserve Civil War battlefields has expanded its objective to preserving American revolution and War of 1812 ones as well.

Their latest success in the War of 1812 has been to purchase the 24 acres of Horse Island, near Sackets Harbor.

To read more about it, go to my Saw the Elephant Civil War blog for today.  You can get to it by clicking on the My Blog List area to the right of this.

--Brock-Perry