Fort Moultrie National Historic Park
1214 Middle St, Sullivan's Island, SC 29482, USA
South Carolina, USA
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FORT
EST. 1776
FORTIFICATION
EST. 1776
BATTLEFIELD
1780–1782
Lee, Charles
Moultrie, William
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Fort Moultrie National Historic Park.
A National Park Service coastal fortification complex preserving successive layers of military construction on Sullivan’s Island. Visitors encounter masonry batteries, earthworks, restored rooms, exhibits, artillery, and surrounding grounds representing the site’s development from the Revolutionary era through the twentieth century.
About Fort Moultrie National Historic Park
Fort Moultrie is a series of fortifications on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, built to protect the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The first fort, formerly named Fort Sullivan, built of palmetto logs, inspired the flag and nickname of South Carolina, as "The Palmetto State". The fort was renamed for the U.S. patriot commander in the Battle of Sullivan's Island, General William Moultrie. During British occupation, in 1780–1782, the fort was known as Fort Arbuthnot.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Fort Moultrie National Historic Park
South Carolina patriots began to build a fort to guard Charleston, South Carolina, harbor in 1776. Royal Navy Admiral Sir Peter Parker led a fleet of nine warships in an attack against the fort—known as Fort Sullivan and incomplete—on June 28, 1776, near the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. The soft palmetto logs did not crack under bombardment but rather absorbed the shot; cannonballs reportedly even bounced off the walls of the structure. William Moultrie, commander of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, and his four hundred men fought a day-long battle that ended with Parker's heavily damaged fleet being driven from the area. The fort hence took its name, as Fort Moultrie, in his honor.
During this battle, Moultrie flew a flag of his own design, authorized by the colonial government. It was later called the Moultrie flag, or Liberty flag, and became iconic to the Revolution in the South.
The British eventually captured Fort Moultrie, as part of the Siege of Charleston in spring 1780, and renamed it as Fort Arbuthnot. Nevertheless, the Patriots won the war, and British troops departed in 1782, at which time the flag was presented in Charleston, by General Nathanael Greene, commander of the southern Regulars.
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