What was the first considerable engagement in the American Revolution?
Commemoration of the American Revolution Commemoration of the American Revolution Commemorations of the American Revolution (1775-1783) have given it a central place in the American memory. As the founding story, it is covered in the schools, memorialized by a national holiday, and commemorated in innumerable monuments. Thus Independence Day (the "Fourth of July") is a major national holiday celebrated annually. Besides local sites such as Bunker Hill, one of the first national pilgrimages for memorial tourists was Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate, which attracted ten thousand visitors a year by the 1850s. Every nation constructs and honors the memory of its founding, and following generations
South Carolina in the American Revolution the state as they controlled three-quarters of South Carolina's wealth, much of it in enslaved African Americans. During the 1780s, Charleston physician David Ramsay published two of the first histories of the American Revolution: "The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina" (1785) and "The History of the American Revolution" (1789). South Carolina in the American Revolution 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 against buying British products. When the London government harshly punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea