REV WAR FORT DISCOVERED IN GEORGIA

[BEAST]

CARR'S FORT

Northeastern Georgia

 

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=9091616

 

 

May 6, 2013 (SAVANNAH, Ga.) -- Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gun battle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort built on a frontiersman's cattle farm.

 

More than 234 years later, archaeologists say they've pinpointed the location of Carr's Fort in northeastern Georgia after a search with metal detectors covering more than 4 square miles turned up musket balls and rifle parts as well as horse shoes and old frying pans.

The February 1779 shootout at Carr's Fort turned back men sent to Wilkes County to recruit colonists loyal to the British army. It was also a prelude to the more prominent battle of Kettle Creek, where the same patriot fighters who attacked the fort went on to ambush and decimate an advancing British force of roughly 800 men.

 

 

 

 

 

Archaeologist Dan Elliott uses a scale to weigh a musket ball recovered from a northeast Georgia site where his team discovered artifacts from a Revolutionary War fort. (Associated Press/LAMAR Institute: Rita Elliott)

 

 

 

[sgtdorango]

Thats awesome, and i learned something i hadnt known, Georgia was the last of the original 13 colonies!.....mike

[cefiler]

I read about this. Really looking forward to reading the archeological report. Nothing's available yet is it?