The Battle of Savo Island, a crushing World War II naval defeat for the Allies, ended on August 9, 1942. After the guns fell silent, the Japanese Navy would sink four Allied heavy cruisers, kill 1,077 ...

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Battle of Sullivan’s Island was a key victory in South Carolina history that took place just days before the country declared its independence from Great Britain.

Americans rebelling against the British government won an astonishing victory in the Battle of Sullivan’s Island near Charleston on June 28, 1776. This is the final article in a series about the ...

Eighty years ago this month, the American entry into World War II was precipitated by the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But the ensuing clash in the war’s Pacific theater has long been ...

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND — Running low on gunpowder, Col. William Moultrie’s men timed their cannon fire carefully on June 28, 1776. From behind the walls of a makeshift fortress made of palmetto logs and ...

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — The weekend of June 24-25, the Lowcountry commemorated the 247th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan's Island. Known as Carolina Day, the event is observed annually ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: CNN Films presents “Why We Dream,” which follows a group of centenarian WWII veterans as they make a pilgrimage to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Watch it now on ...

A month after German naval forces led by Admiral Maximilian von Spee inflicted the Royal Navy’s first defeat in a century by sinking two British cruisers with all hands off the southern coast of Chile ...