CHARLETON - The First Battle of the Rebellion

The party of french officers loaded themselves with guns and ammunition rather than a change of clothes, then they departed for charleston. After three days and two nights, tramping southwest through blazing coastal sands, they finally made it back to civilization. Lafayette's group spent the next eight days in charleston, dining and drinking with the best of local society. He toured the famous fortification that defended the city so admirably during a fale british siege the previous summer,. one of the rare military triumphs in an otherwise dismal year of retreat and defeat. But young lafayette signed his purchase agreement without reading or understanding the fine print, he did not know the proceeds from