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George Walton,a Founding Father of the United States,signed the United States Declaration of Independence while representing Georgia in the Continental Congress. Walton also served briefly as the second chief executive of Georgia in 1779 and was again named governor in 1789–1790. In 1795,he was appointed to the U.S. Senate,to complete the unexpired term of a senator who had resigned.
The Principality of Abkhazia emerged as a separate feudal entity in the 15th-16th centuries,amid the civil wars in the Kingdom of Georgia that concluded with the dissolution of the unified Georgian monarchy. The principality retained a degree of autonomy under the Ottoman,and then the Russian rule,but was eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1864.
Richard Howly,sometimes spelled Howley,was an American planter and lawyer from Liberty County,Georgia. He served briefly as the governor of Georgia in 1780,as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780 and 1781,and as chief justice of Georgia in 1782 and 1783.
Stephen Heard was an American planter,politician and military officer who briefly served as president of Georgia and was sometimes called "governor". Born in Virginia,Heard fought in the French and Indian War in the Virginia militia under George Washington,then with his father and brother moved to the Georgia colony based on a land grant for such service,and built two forts in Wilkes County called "Fort Heard". During the American Revolutionary War Heard served as a lieutenant colonel in the Georgia militia under Lieutenant John Dooly. He fought with Gen. Elijah Clarke at the Battle of Kettle Creek where he was captured but escaped. Voters elected Heard to the Georgia House of Representatives,where he served from 1779 to 1795. Heard's Fort was designated the seat of government for Georgia on February 3,1780 and remained such until 1781,then developed into the town of Washington,Georgia. Fellow llegislators elected Heard as the state's executive,where he served from May 24,1780,until August 18,1781. One source records Heard as resigning as president in 1782.
The 1st South Carolina Regiment (Infantry) was authorized on June 6,1775,at Charleston,South Carolina,for service with the South Carolina State Troops. On November 4,1775,the unit was adopted into the Continental Army and on February 27,1776 was assigned to the Southern Department. The regiment saw action at the Siege of Savannah and the Siege of Charleston. The British Army captured the regiment at Charleston on May 12,1780,together with the rest of the Southern Department.
The Georgia Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress. The term also included the three infantry regiments in excess of Georgia's quota that were raised outside the state. These,together with similar contingents from the other twelve states,formed the Continental Line. The concept was particularly important in relation to the promotion of commissioned officers. Officers of the Continental Army below the rank of brigadier general were ordinarily ineligible for promotion except in the line of their own state.
The southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the central theater of military operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War,1778–1781. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia,Georgia,North Carolina,and South Carolina. Tactics consisted of both strategic battles and guerrilla warfare.
George Jones was a United States senator from Georgia. Born in Savannah,he received an academic training,studied medicine with his father,and practiced for a number of years. He participated in the American Revolutionary War. He was captured by the British Army as a prisoner of war and during 1780 and 1781 was imprisoned upon an English ship. He was later a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia Senate,and during the War of 1812 he served as captain of a company of Savannah reserves. He was a member of the Savannah board of aldermen in 1793–1794,1802–1803,and 1814–1815,and was mayor of Savannah from 1812 to 1814. He was appointed judge of the eastern judicial circuit of Georgia in 1804,and served until he became a U.S. senator,appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Abraham Baldwin and serving from August 27,1807,to November 7,1807,when a successor was elected.
George Handley was an American politician who served as the 18th Governor of Georgia from 1788 to 1789. George Handley was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Georgia.
The Mamluk dynasty of Mesopotamia was a dynasty of Georgian Mamluk origin which ruled over Iraq in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The Battle of Rocky Mount took place on August 1,1780 as part of the American Revolutionary War. 600 Loyalists commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Turnbull occupying an outpost in northern South Carolina withstood an attack by 300 American Patriots led by Colonel Thomas Sumter.
The Battle of Hanging Rock was a battle in the American Revolutionary War that occurred between the American Patriots and the British. It was part of a campaign by militia General Thomas Sumter to harass or destroy British outposts in the South Carolina back-country that had been established after the fall of Charleston in May 1780.
The siege of Augusta took place between May 22,1781,and June 6,1781. American Patriot forces,led by General Andrew Pickens and Colonel Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee,were successful in capturing Augusta,Georgia held by British loyalist militia. Fort Cornwallis,the primary British defence,was successfully exposed to cannon fire by the construction of a tower 30 feet (9.1 m) high on which the Americans mounted a small cannon. The British surrendered on June 6.
The Church of the Holy Seal is an 18th-century Armenian church in Old Tbilisi,Georgia. It was built between 1703 and 1711,and reconstructed in 1780.
The Province of Georgia was a significant battleground in the American Revolution. Its population was at first divided about exactly how to respond to revolutionary activities and heightened tensions in other provinces. Georgia was the only colony not present in the First Continental Congress in 1774. When violence broke out in 1775,radical Patriots took control of the provincial government,and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and 1778,Georgia served as the staging ground for several important raids into British-controlled Florida. The British army captured Savannah in 1778,and the American and French forces failed to recapture the city during the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Georgia remained under British control until their evacuation from Savannah in 1782.
Humphrey Wells was an American politician who served as the Governor of Georgia for only two days,from February 16,1780,to February 18,1780. He resigned the office to Stephen Heard. Before that,he served as a member of the Executive Council of Georgia,to which he was named in July 1779.
The Anson County Regiment was authorized on September 9,1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress. The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against the British and Cherokee during the American Revolution in North Carolina,South Carolina and Georgia between 1776 and 1781. It was active until the end of the war.
The New Bern District Brigade was an administrative division of the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). This unit was established by the North Carolina Provincial Congress on May 4,1776,and disbanded at the end of the war.
The Dobbs County Regiment was a unit of the North Carolina militia that served during the American Revolution. The regiment was one of thirty-five existing county militias that were authorized by the North Carolina Provincial Congress to be organized on September 9,1775. All officers were appointed with commissions from the Provincial Congress. On May 4,1776,the regiment was placed under the command of the New Bern District Brigade commanded by Brigadier General Richard Caswell. The regiment was active until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and was engaged in twelve known battles and skirmishes in North Carolina,South Carolina and Georgia.
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