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Annotations On - Travels In The Confederation [1783-1784], Journal Of Johann David Schoepf, John Benjamin Burroughs Aug 2005

Annotations On - Travels In The Confederation [1783-1784], Journal Of Johann David Schoepf, John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

Johann David Schoepf was born in 1752 in the German principality of Bayreuth. Educated as a physician and natural scientist, he arrived at New York in 1777 as chief surgeon of the Ansbach troops in the service of George III. Returning to Europe in 1784, Schoepf died in 1800 while serving as president of the United Medical Colleges of Ansbach and Bayreuth. In these selected passages, Schoepf describes his travel along the north-eastern coastline of South Carolina, through what is now Horry County, and along the beach of Long Bay, now known as Myrtle Beach. He gives a description of …


In Search Of Uauenee (Or The Great Bluff), John Benjamin Burroughs Jul 2005

In Search Of Uauenee (Or The Great Bluff), John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

This article challenges the opinion of some that the "Great Bluff", mentioned in the Indian Trade Commissioners Journal, 1716-1718, and the site of a early Indian Trading House, was located on the Yauhannah Bluff in Georgetown County. It makes an argument that the "Great Bluff" was actually the bluff on Bull Creek in present-day Horry County and that the Indian Trading House was located there. Excerpts of the Indian Trade Commissioners Journal from 1716-1718 are provided.


Excerpts From - The Diary Of George Washington, 1791, John Benjamin Burroughs Jul 2005

Excerpts From - The Diary Of George Washington, 1791, John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

In 1791 President George Washington travelled through the southern states in an effort to unify into one country the newly independent American states. This article contains two diary entries recording his visit through the All Saints Parish section of what is now Horry County, South Carolina on April 27 and 28, 1791. Three local residences are mentioned: Mr. Cochran’s, Mr. Vareen’s and Mr. Pawley’s.


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Ms-065: Lincoln Fellowship Of Pennsylvania, Jason M. Kowell Jul 2005

Ms-065: Lincoln Fellowship Of Pennsylvania, Jason M. Kowell

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The Lincoln Fellowship collection consist largely of correspondence between Lincoln Fellowship officials and members (individual or through bulk mailings), LF officials and potential guests and speakers, and inter-organizational correspondence. Also included is documentation of LF events (newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, and video recordings) as well as a few other miscellaneous items. Mixed in with the correspondence are Treasurer’s Reports, publicity pamphlets/programs, and bills/invoices.

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Annotations On Selected Entries – The Journal And Letters Of Francis Asbury [1771-1816], John Benjamin Burroughs May 2005

Annotations On Selected Entries – The Journal And Letters Of Francis Asbury [1771-1816], John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

English-born Francis Asbury (1745-1816), famed bishop of the American Methodist movement, visited the area that is now known as Horry County, South Carolina several times during the period 1785 to 1815. Asbury spread Methodism in America as part of the Second Great Awakening. In his journal and letters he left us several interesting accounts of the area and its residents. Annotations have been added in order to clarify his remarks.


Armageddon’S Lost Lessons: Combined Arms Operations In Allenby’S Palestine Campaign, Gregory A. Daddis Jan 2005

Armageddon’S Lost Lessons: Combined Arms Operations In Allenby’S Palestine Campaign, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

In September 1918, the EEF concluded its campaign in Palestine by routing the Turkish forces at the battle of Megiddo. Under command of British general Allenby, the EEF successfully executed one of the most decisive engagements in any theater of World War I. Ably employing and synchronizing infantry, cavalry, and air forces, Allenby provided future military professionals and historians with a shining illustration of the efficacy of combined arms operations. In terms of surprise, concentration, and operational balance of forces, the culmination of the Palestine campaign was a foreshadowing of the German blitzkrieg used in World War II.

Unfortunately, the …


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