{"id":104058,"date":"2020-08-23T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104058"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:32:29","slug":"archaeologists-locate-the-south-carolina-battlefield-here-patriot-john-laurens-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104058","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists locate the South Carolina battlefield where Patriot John Laurens died"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/ba\/Charles_Willson_Peale_-_John_Laurens_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"484\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lieut. Col. John Laurens (Continental Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Laurens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Laurens<\/a> was only 27 when he died in action at the Battle of Combahee River in August 1782 during the American Revolutionary War. He was in England at the start of the war studying law, but came back to the colonies, determined to join the fight on behalf of his country.<\/p>\n<p>His father pulled some strings and got the 23 year old a position as a civilian aide-de-camp to General Washington. There he served alongside, and became friends with, future General and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and famed Revolutionary War general Marquis de Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>After showing bravery in combat, he was commissioned as a Lieut. Col. to serve as Washington&#8217;s official ADC.<\/p>\n<p>He was wounded in action four times in six battles before falling in his last one. For those who don&#8217;t know the story of this man, it&#8217;s worth a read. Alternatively, you could wait for me to do a Valor Friday piece for the Reader&#8217;s Digest version. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The spot where Laurens fell was thought to have been lost to history. This week researchers announced they&#8217;ve rediscovered it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the land is part of a private quail hunting preserve, so the archaeologists are surveying the site on a deadline\u2014hunting season starts on November 23. The team found the spot where the Battle of Tar Bluff was fought by combining historical evidence like a hand-drawn map with modern technology like LIDAR and metal detectors. The site on the bank of the Combahee River was dotted with artifacts that allowed the archaeologists to retrace the battle, and find within ten yards where Laurens met his end. Now that the site has been discovered, the Trust can include it in the South Carolina Liberty Trail, a driving route that calls attention to sites in the state where battles and skirmishes of the American Revolution took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/archaeologists-locate-south-carolina-battlefield-where-patriot-john-laurens-died-180975626\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Laurens was only 27 when he died in action at the Battle of Combahee River &hellip; <a title=\"Archaeologists locate the South Carolina battlefield where Patriot John Laurens died\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104058\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archaeologists locate the South Carolina battlefield where Patriot John Laurens died<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,10,389,121,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-historical","category-valor","category-war-stories","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104077,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058\/revisions\/104077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}