Key Takeaways

• Van Hipp highlights the Siege of Ninety-Six as a crucial but often overlooked episode of the American Revolutionary War.
• Ninety-Six served as a key British frontier outpost supporting control of South Carolina’s interior.
• The Star Fort at Ninety-Six was a well-designed 18th-century fortification that proved difficult to capture.
• Although the Patriot assault failed, the siege contributed to the British decision to abandon the fort and retreat to the coast.
• The events at Ninety-Six helped set the stage for the eventual British defeat at Yorktown later in 1781.