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  • Episode 323: Firefight in Hog Island Channel: South Carolina's Tipping Point to War with Britain

    Episode 323: Firefight in Hog Island Channel: South Carolina's Tipping Point to War with Britain
    2026/06/26
    Episode 323: Firefight in Hog Island Channel: South Carolina's Tipping Point to War with Britain by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
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    32 分
  • Episode 322: Sullivan's Island, October 1775: An Emergent Loyalist Sanctuary

    Episode 322: Sullivan's Island, October 1775: An Emergent Loyalist Sanctuary
    2026/06/12
    The last vestiges of royal authority in South Carolina, huddled within two small warships anchored in Charleston Harbor, survived the autumn of 1775 by cultivating a largely forgotten terrestrial connection. Surrounded by increasingly hostile rebel forces, British mariners established a foothold on Sullivan’s Island, both to supply their wants and to nurture an improvised sanctuary for political refugees.
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    31 分
  • Episode 321: Posturing in Charleston Harbor, September 1775: Prelude to a Firefight

    Episode 321: Posturing in Charleston Harbor, September 1775: Prelude to a Firefight
    2026/05/29
    Episode 321: Posturing in Charleston Harbor, September 1775: Prelude to a Firefight by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
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    28 分
  • Episode 320: The Collapse of British Rule in South Carolina, September 1775

    Episode 320: The Collapse of British Rule in South Carolina, September 1775
    2026/05/15
    One hundred and five years after the founding of modern South Carolina, the king’s royal governor dissolved the provincial government and fled the capital in mid-September 1775. Lord William Campbell’s famous nocturnal flight to the warship Tamar followed a sustained summer campaign of rebel intimidation, and triggered an autumnal stand-off between hostile American colonists and British officials desperate to preserve control of Charleston Harbor.
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    29 分
  • Episode 319: The Tamar in Rebellion Road: Asylum for Loyalists in 1775

    Episode 319: The Tamar in Rebellion Road: Asylum for Loyalists in 1775
    2026/04/24
    Episode 319: The Tamar in Rebellion Road: Asylum for Loyalists in 1775 by Nic Butler, Ph.D.
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    36 分
  • Episode 318: The Flight of Sampson the Pilot in the Summer of 1775

    Episode 318: The Flight of Sampson the Pilot in the Summer of 1775
    2026/03/27
    In the summer of 1775, amid smoldering tension between the British government rebellious colonists, officers of the Royal Navy in Charleston quietly negotiated with an enslaved mariner named Sampson Waldron. The warship Scorpion briefly required his piloting skills to exit the harbor, but the prospect of freedom via service to the king induced him to remain aboard and commence a new life as an enemy to colonial resistance.
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    35 分
  • Episode 317: The First Days of South Carolina's Last Royal Governor

    Episode 317: The First Days of South Carolina's Last Royal Governor
    2026/03/06
    Lord William Campbell, the new royal governor of the colony of South Carolina, stepped ashore at Charleston in late June 1775 to an uneasy reception. Family, friends, and old acquaintances greeted him politely, but a pervasive spirit of rebellion clouded their sentiments. Insulted by apathy for his authority and direct expressions of seditious opinions, Campbell nevertheless chose to stand his ground and jettison a convenient means of escape.
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    31 分
  • Episode 316: Governor William Campbell and the Scorpion, sailing to Charleston in 1775

    Episode 316: Governor William Campbell and the Scorpion, sailing to Charleston in 1775
    2026/02/20
    The first sparks of the American Revolution ignited during the spring of 1775, while Lord William Campbell prepared to sail from England to his post as Governor of South Carolina. His contacts and conversations during that turbulent year presaged an uncertain reception in Charleston. As civil war erupted in Massachusetts, the king’s ministers empowered Campbell to choose his future course—either trim the sails of unruly Carolina, or abandon the provincial ship of state.
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    27 分