SC-10-11 Lord Cornwallis

Marker text: LORD CORNWALLIS
Major General Charles Cornwallis established a brigade headquarters not far from this site on or around June 19, 1776. His brigade was part of a British army under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, which had occupied this island as a staging point for attacking the palmetto log fort on Sullivan's Island. This was Cornwallis's first major command in America.
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Erected 2005, replacing a marker erected in 1972 by the South Carolina Society, Sons of the American Revolution