John Laurens

Wire of Henry Laurens, which will be the 5th president of the continental Congrès in 1777-1778, John Laurens was born the October 28th 1754 with Charleston (South Carolina) and killed with the Bataille of the river Combahee, the August 27th 1782.

Very young person, it becomes, at the side of Alexander Hamilton, aide-de-camp of the general Washington. It leaves for France on October 28th, 1780, on the frigate the the Amazon which order Perugia, with the son of Rochambeau, to ask for the sending of reinforcements the task force and financial subsidies. Of return to Boston in August 1781, it takes again its place at Washington. With Yorktown, with Hamilton and under the command of Fayette, it takes part on October 14th in the catch of one of the Redoute S keys of English defense, capturing that which ordered it. The end of the war sees it fighting in South Carolina, after having vainly tried to obtain provincial government to create units made up of blacks which would be thus freed. It is killed in one of the last skirmishes of the war on the American continent, on August 27th, 1782.

Source

• Gregory Massey, John Laurens and the American Revolution" , University off South Carolina, 2000