ADMIRAL SIR PETER
PARKER’S DRAWERS
JUNE 28, 1776
CHARLESTON HARBOR,
SOUTH CAROLINA
From the book, Unlikely Heroes, by Ron Carter
British
Admiral Sir Peter Parker stood on the quarterdeck of his flagship, HMS Bristol,
anchored in the Atlantic Ocean just outside the entrance to the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina. He extended
his telescope and for a long time studied the fort that stood on the great
sandbar that partially blocked the harbor entrance. With several other British warships under his
command, he had been ordered to bombard Charleston into submission and to give
general support to British troops that were to invade the southern colonies to
put down the American rebellion.
