apr 8, 1780 - Bombardment of Fort Moultrie

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A British naval squadron detachment, consisting of Roebuck, Richmond, Romulus, Blonde, Virginia, Raleigh, Sandwich (armed ship) and Renown, passed the heavy guns of Fort Moultrie, commanded by Col. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, with the loss of 27 men, and the loss of Aeolus, an ordnance ship which went aground and was burned. Richmond's foretop mast was shot away. The flotilla then anchored off Fort Johnson, the move having marked a major breach in the American defenses, because now the enemy was inside Charles Town Harbor right offshore the city's defenses.

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