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state flag represents the role of South Carolina in the American
Revolution. In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie was asked by the
South Carolina Revolutionary Council of Safety to design a banner for
use by South Carolina troops. Colonel Moultrie chose a simple design
that displayed the crescent on a blue field. The new flag was the same
blue color of the soldier's uniforms and the silver crescent echoed the
symbol that the soldiers wore on the front of their caps. The
Palmetto, the South Carolina State Tree, had been attributed as
instrumental in Colonel Moultrie's defense of Sullivan's Island against
an attack by British warships in June 1776. Cannonballs fired at the
fort from the British ships could not destroy the walls of the fort
which were built of Palmetto logs. Instead, the cannonballs simply sank
into the soft, tough Palmetto wood.
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