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Showing posts with label Savannah Georgia. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found in Georgia

http://news.yahoo.com/frontier-fort-revolutionary-war-found-ga-145450206.html - Yahoo News

In this May 2, 2013 photo provided by the LAMAR Institute, archaeologist Dan Elliott holds a piece of a decorative brass recovered during the search for a small frontier fort that was the sight of a gun battle during the Revolutionary War, in Wilkes County, Ga. Elliott says his team from the nonprofit LAMAR Institute found the location of Carr’s Fort in February after a month of searching and confirmed their discovery with return trips in March and April. (AP Photo/LAMAR Institute, Rita Elliott)

Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gun battle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort built on a frontiersman's cattle farm…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…
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