Remarkable Charlestonians in the American Revolution

The Death of Major Pierson by John Singleton Copley , 1782. Tate Britain The American Revolution was a struggle for liberty, but not in the uncomplicated way we learned in school, or by watching Mel Gibson' film, The Patriot . The traditional story holds that Patriots fought to free themselves from arbitrary taxation by an allegedly tyrannical king, George III. What is often left out is that…