Port Royal Sound is a coastal sound, or inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the Sea Islands region, in Beaufort County in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the estuary of several rivers, the largest of which is the Broad River.
force captured PortRoyalSound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861. The sound was guarded by...
was Jean Ribault, who referred to the name of the sound and the island as PortRoyal, or royalport in French. After the Charlesfort settlement failed...
Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound, which contains numerous...
the world where jubilees regularly occur [see Mobile Bay Jubilee]) PortRoyalSound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, The Lowcountry...
The PortRoyal Experiment was a program begun during the American Civil War in which former slaves successfully worked on the land abandoned by planters...
American Civil War began. In November of that year, the Union attacked PortRoyalSound and soon occupied Beaufort County and the neighboring Sea Islands....
abolitionists such as Frances Gage and Clara Barton. Union forces captured PortRoyalSound in 1861, and Parris Island became a coaling station for the Navy. This...
marshes of the PortRoyalSound Basin, Callawassie Island is a major supporter of the state-of-the-art Maritime Center, run by the PortRoyalSound Foundation...
Watts Cut New River Ramshorn Creek Calibogue Sound Skull Creek Fixed span to Hilton Head Island PortRoyalSound Beaufort River Ladys Island Swing Bridge...
Robert Sandford both made voyages to PortRoyalSound and vicinity. In July 1666 Sanford entered Calibogue Sound between Hilton Head and Daufuskie. It...
mission to establish colonies at Ochuse (Pensacola Bay) and Santa Elena (PortRoyalSound). The plan was to land everybody at Ochuse, with most of the colonists...
is related to the modern load. Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead. The United States Navy...
that the British captured in 1809 and took into the Royal Navy; she wrecked at PortRoyalSound, South Carolina in 1813. In December 1814 the Admiralty...
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