* August 27 – The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, Charleston, and the Sea Islands, killing 1, 000 – 2, 000.

In 2011, Charleston was named # 1 U. S. City by Conde Nast Traveler's Readers ' Choice Awards and # 2 Best City in the U. S. and Canada by Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards.

On June 28, 1776 General Henry Clinton with 2, 000 men and a naval squadron tried to seize Charleston, hoping for a simultaneous Loyalist uprising in South Carolina.

James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919, when his son was less than 2 years old.

Although it is only 30 minutes south of Charleston, South Carolina, Seabrook's 2, 200 acres of beaches, sand dunes, and forests make visitors and owners feel worlds away.

For example, 1920s and solo Charleston was-and is-usually danced to 2 / 4 ragtime music or traditional jazz, Lindy Hop was danced to swing music ( a kind of swinging jazz ), and Lindy Charleston to either traditional or swing jazz.

) Graf then won her next three tournaments at Amelia Island, Charleston, and Berlin, culminating in a 6 – 2, 6 – 3 defeat of Navratilova in the final of the latter.

* 2 Charleston Film Festival Gold Awards ( 1995 )

A numbered series of cruisers began with Newark ( Cruiser No. 1 ), although Charleston ( Cruiser No. 2 ) was the first to be launched, in July 1888, and ending with another Charleston, Cruiser No. 22, launched in 1904.

On clay, Henin failed to retain her title at the Tier I Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, losing in the semifinals to third-seeded Patty Schnyder 2 – 6, 6 – 3, 6 – 2.

General Cornwallis, alerted to Gates ' movement on August 9, marched from Charleston with reinforcements, arriving at Camden on August 13, bringing the effective British troop strength over 2, 000 men.

Charleston International Airport and Charleston AFB cover an area of which contains two runways: 15 / 33, measuring 9, 001 x 200 ft ( 2, 744 x 61 m ) and 03 / 21 measuring 7, 004 x 150 ft ( 2, 135 x 46 m ).

Joshua Scott Jones, winner of Season 2 of CMT " Can You Duet " and one-half of the duo " Steel Magnolia ", is from the southeastern town of Charleston, Illinois.

Dokic then started her clay season campaign by participating at Charleston, where she was upset in the first round by qualifier Anna Tatishvili, in three close sets, 5 – 7, 6 – 2, 4 – 6.

Robert Hayne, who followed Hamilton as governor in 1833, established a 2, 000 man group of mounted minutemen and 25, 000 infantry who would immediately march to Charleston in the event of a military conflict.

On February 2, 1882, Clanton's attorney brought in seven witnesses who testified that Clanton was in Charleston at the time of Virgil's shooting.

They are followed by Asheville Tulsa ( 14 ); Fayetteville ( 11 ); Colorado ( 9 ); Huntsville / Albuquerque, Charleston / Florida, Roanoke and Sioux Falls ( 8 ); Iowa ( 6 ); Fort Worth and Idaho ( 5 ); Dakota, Fort Wayne and Mobile ( 4 ); Bakersfield and Los Angeles ( 3 ); Rio Grande Valley and Anaheim / Springfield ( 2 ) and Arkansas, Erie, Greenville and Utah ( 1 ).

The southeastern terminus of US 52 is in Charleston, South Carolina, at Number 2 Meeting Street and White Point Gardens along the Charleston Harbor.

The Urban Land Institute ( ULI ) awarded the Battery Park City Master Plan its 2010 Heritage Award, for having " facilitated the private development of 9. 3 million square feet of commercial space, 7. 2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in lower Manhattan, becoming a model for successful large-scale planning efforts and marking a positive shift away from the urban renewal mindset of the time.

" New school " bands such as Strung Out, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Strife, Hatebreed, 108, Integrity and Damnation A. D. dominated the scene in the early 1990s, but towards the end of the decade, a new-found interest in " old school " had developed, represented by bands like Battery, Ten Yard Fight, In My Eyes, Good Clean Fun, H < sub > 2 </ sub > O and Ray Cappo's new band Better Than a Thousand.

* Fort Jackson – ( aka Fort Garibaldi, Main Fort, Fort Milroy, Battery No. 2 )

The Russians launched 7, 000 men against the Sandbag Battery, which was defended by 2, 000 British soldiers.

Captain George Maude's troop of horse artillery, I Troop, unlimbered its four 6-pounder and two 12-pounder guns between redoubts 2 and 3, whilst Captain Barker's battery, W Battery, of the Royal Artillery, moved out of Balaclava and took its position on Maude's left.

In 2008, Miloco Studios opened Assault & Battery 2, a tracking and mix studio in Willesden Green.

A flight of two Cobra helicopters from Battery F, 79th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, U. S. Army, were armed with the newly developed 2. 75 " HEAT rockets, which were yet untested in combat.

Battery requires ( 1 ) a volitional act that ( 2 ) results in a harmful or offensive contact with another person and ( 3 ) is committed for the purpose of causing a harmful or offensive contact or under circumstances that render such contact substantially certain to occur or with a reckless disregard as to whether such contact will result.

On 10 September 1904, Exeter City played its first ever competitive match, a 2 – 1 victory at St James over 110th Battery of the Royal Artillery, in the East Devon League.

The second was a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device ( IED ) attack against Charles Duelfer's convoy, which claimed the lives of two of Duelfer's Physical Security Detail, SSG Clinton Wisdom and SPC Don Clary, both of the Kansas Army National Guard's B Battery, 2 / 130th Field Artillery Regiment.

Later, also ' U ' Heavy Battery, with four 155 mm howitzers was transferred from Lae, as was the 2 / 11th Field Regiment.

Liberty Island is 2000 feet ( 600 m ) east of Liberty State Park in Jersey City and is 1-5 / 8 statute miles ( 2. 6 kilometers ) southwest of Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.

The 20th Battery ( Bolton Artillery ) fired the Division's first artillery rounds of the Great War, and the first of the Territorial Force of the campaign, near El Ferdan on 2 February 1915.

* Imperial Camel Brigade 1 Camel Pack Battery of 6 X 2. 75-inch

The Battery won the PDSL championship in 1996, defeating the Charlotte Eagles 3 – 2 and the A-League championship in 2003, defeating the Minnesota Thunder 3 – 0 to win the title.

Late in the season, the Battery lost goalkeeper and captain Dusty Hudock to injury, but were still able to make it to the USL-1 finals, losing to the Montreal Impact 4 – 2 on aggregate goals.

The Battery began 2010 play in the USL Second Division on April 17, 2010 with a 3 – 2 win at rival Charlotte Eagles.

File: Illowra Battery 1944 AWM 081445. jpeg | Dated: 1944 No. 2 gun Illowra Battery, Showing it's original BL 6 inch Mk XI gun

File: Illowra battery aka hill 60. jpg | Gun position No. 2 at Illowra Battery, which formed part of the Kembla Fortress defences in World War II

Image: Lung Fu Shan Pinewood Battery 2. jpg | Abandoned buildings

* No 2 Kashmir Mountain Battery

( Battery life was also a problem, since the relatively high bias currents required by Type-IV tape, combined with the state of battery technology at the time, meant that even a brand-new pair of alkaline batteries might give out in as little as 2 hours when the unit was in recording mode.

Sparrow Force joined about 650 Dutch East Indies troops and was supported by the 12 Lockheed Hudson light bombers of No. 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force and a troop from the British Royal Artillery's 79th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery.