Patriots in Exile: Charleston Rebels in St. Augustine during the American Revolution

A historical study of a little-known episode of the American Revolution in which Charleston residents were held in a British-occupied region of Florida.

In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixty-three Americans and transported them to the borderland town of St. Augustine, East Florida—territory under British control since the French and Indian War. In Patriots in Exile, James Waring Mc...