Out of curiousity what state do you live in?

At 06:53 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Out of curiousity what state do you live in? I live in NC, but very near SC. The comments are based primarily on SC, but also partially on NC. SC is probably the one colony in which the Rev War was a border-to-border event, since it was the only colony in which the Brits established inland posts and sought (with considerable success) to provoke a civil war. SC had more battle/skirmish sites than any other colony (I'll arm-wrestle on this *privately*, if anyone is so inclined) and had more war debt than the other 12 colonies combined (it was then "total war", it was civil war, it was late in the war when the other colonies felt they had "done their share" and the Carolinas were essentially on their own, and all that was at stake was the outcome of the war). The war could have been won or lost there. The Continental forces in the South had been decimated. All that stood in the way of defeat was the backcountry militia, and there was a very viable British army still in the field. And the watchword was that "the militia won't fight". We know how it turned out. I study the Rev War all over, wherever it happened. But there are few places it gets more exciting, or more unpredictable (or unbelievable) than in SC. John Robertson