Battle of Coosawhatchie

Coosawhatchie

Jasper County, South Carolina

Commanders: Colonels William Moultrie, John

Laurens; Gen. Augustine Prevost

Casualties: 3 Americans killed, 8 wounded

"Despite the defeat at Port Royal Island, General

Prevost was determined to make a second

attempt to capture Charleston. Instead of a

small detachment of 150 men, ...

Coosawhatchie

(Front Side): Coosawhatchie,dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw Tribe. At first it was little more than a store and inn built on the King's Highway by Henry De Saussure, a Huguenot settler from Purrysburg.

By the 1760s, ...