Thomas Pinckney (October 23, 1750 – November 2, 1828) was an American statesman, diplomat, and military officer who fought in both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, achieving the rank of major general.

Thomas Pinckney was an American soldier, politician, and diplomat who negotiated Pinckney’s Treaty (Oct. 27, 1795) with Spain. After military service in the American Revolutionary War, Pinckney, a younger brother of the diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, turned to …

In 1792, Pinckney accepted his most prestigious and challenging assignment yet: US minister to Great Britain. As minister to Great Britain, Pinckney tackled difficult and unresolved issues from the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution and …

2016年6月20日 · At the outbreak of war in 1775, Pinckney became a captain in the First South Carolina Continental regiment and was later promoted to major. Governor, diplomat, congressman, soldier. Pinckney was born in Charleston on October 23, 1750, the son of Charles Pinckney and Elizabeth “Eliza” Lucas, and the brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

2019年11月12日 · Over nine hundred Americans were killed or wounded that day, among them twenty-nine-year-old Major Thomas Pinckney. A British musket ball smashed his thigh, causing a compound fracture. The fragment of the American army that …

2024年10月28日 · Thomas Pinckney, born on October 23, 1750, in Charles Town (modern-day Charleston), South Carolina, was a pivotal figure in early American history. His life and career spanned critical periods of the nation’s formation, from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812.

Continental officer, South Carolina governor, diplomat. South Carolina. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on 23 October 1750, Pinckney shared a European education with his elder brother, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, graduating from Oxford in 1768 before studying law at the Middle Temple and being admitted to the bar in 1774.

2024年11月6日 · Thomas Pinckney was the youngest son of Eliza Lucas and Charles Pinckney. Born in 1750, he was placed in school in England when he was three years old. His father died when Thomas was eight and he remained in England until he returned briefly to South Carolina in 1771, at twenty-one years old.

Captain Thomas Pinckney (August 13, 1828 – November 14, 1915) was a Southern rice planter and Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. [1] He was the grandson of Major General Thomas Pinckney and one of the Immortal Six Hundred.

An American political leader, Thomas Pinckney served in the American Revolution and went on to a distinguished political career. As a diplomat, he negotiated Pinckney’s Treaty (1795), an agreement with Spain that fixed the southern boundary of the United States at 31° N latitude and established commercial arrangements favorable to the United ...