Charleston in South Carolina was the scene of a number of armed encounters in 1775 and 1776, between local patriot American 'Britons', versus the regiments of King George III (which included 12,000 German 'hessian' soldiers who had been hired in as reinforcements.
In May of 1776, the Charleston newspaper The South Carolina and American General Gazette published a huge three page article listing all of the similarities between King George III and King James II, the tyrant king who was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
"If I turn my thoughts to recollect in history, a change of government upon more cogent reasons, I say, I know of no change upon principles so providing – compelling – justifiable. And in these respects, even the famous Revolution in England in the year 1688 ... we need no better authority than that famous precedent; and I will therefore compare the causes of, and the law upon, the two events..."
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