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...being a very hot day, we were served along the platform with grog in fire-buckets, which we partook of very heartily. I never had a more agreeable draft." With these surprising words, Colonel William Moultrie, 45, commander of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, was recounting not an assault upon some savanna-side grogshop but a striking colonial victory off Charles Town, South Carolina. In a bitter ten-hour action, Moultrie and 435 men inflicted heavy losses upon a strong British naval squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb...
...sweep of this first volume (more are to come) extends from the start of the 2nd century to Constantine's triumphant emergence from a series of civil wars in A.D. 324. With his very first unhesitant sentences, Gibbon sets the situation and foreshadows the outcome...
...Task Force on Affirmative Action, would like to thank The Crimson for its coverage of the May 2nd "Outing in Unity and Struggle" sponsored by our coalition. We firmly believe that the publicizing of and action upon the abuses inflicted by the Harvard University administration on the University community is of great importance. It is with this in mind that we, of the TFAA, send this letter to your paper in support of the struggle of Afro-American kitchen worker Paul Glass...
Harvard freshmen lightweights 2nd to UMass heavyweights...
Radcliffe Lightweights (J.V.) 2nd to Princeton