The History of the Revolution of South Carolina…
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The History of the Revolution of South Carolina…
David Ramsay (1749-1815)
Trenton, New Jersey
1785
Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray in honor of Mrs. Mary E. S. Hanahan
David Ramsay, a Pennsylvania-born, Princeton-educated, Charleston, South Carolina, physician, believed that “the revolution of the governments of American, from British provinces into independent states, exhibited many useful lessons, both to princes and people.” Ramsay’s two-volume account of the conflict is one of the earliest histories of the American Revolution and includes a number of maps and plans detailing the conflict in the Palmetto State.