On this day 250 years ago, or maybe the next day, November 20, 1775, Dr. John Connolly, Lt. Allen Cameron and Dr. John Smyth were arrested in Hagerstown, Maryland for plotting to raise an army of Indians and Loyalists to march from Pittsburgh to Alexandria, Virginia. There they planned to meet Governor Dunmore’s flotilla and crush the Patriot uprising in Virginia.
Also on this day 250 years ago, at Ninety Six, South Carolina, approximately1800 Loyalists surrounded a hastily constructed fort erected by 560 Patriot militia commanded by Colonel Andrew Williamson. After Williamson refused to surrender, the Loyalists attacked beginning the first Siege of Ninety Six, or the Battle of Savage’s Old Fields that would continue for the next two days.
Sources: https://davedoeshistory.org/2025/11/19/the-siege-of-96/; https://250andcounting.com/2025/11/19/the-siege-of-ninety-six-november-19-1775/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os5faE1ioYU
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