South Carolina was outraged over British tax policies in the 1760s that violated what they saw as their constitutional right to "no taxation without representation". Merchants joined the boycott again
British General Henry Clinton
Portrait of Banastre Tarleton by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Gathering of Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, by Lloyd Branson, depict Overmountain Men en route to their victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780
Battle of Cowpens, 1781
Thomas Sumter
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Thomas Sumter was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general during the Revolutionary War. After the war, Sumter was elected to the
South Carolina in the American Revolution
…Brigade (Marion was eventually commissioned general). Marion had not yet heard the news of Gates' defeat at the time. The next day a small militia under Thomas Sumter was surprised and completely routed at Fishing Creek; Sumter barely escaped with his life. At this point, Marion had the only viable Patriot army left…
Plaque at the South Carolina statehouse
Statue of Thomas Sumter on the courthouse lawn in Sumter, South Carolina
Gravesite of Thomas Sumter
Sumter shares a monument, erected in 1913, on the state capitol grounds in Columbia with two other Revolutionary War generals: Francis Marion and Andrew Pickens