Benjamin Huger (American Revolution)
- Benjamin Huger (American Revolution)
Benjamin Huger (1746 – 11 May 1779) was one of five Huger brothers from South Carolina who served in the American Revolutionary War. Huger became a close friend of Lafayette, having met him upon his arrival in Charleson in 1777, and his son Francis Kinloch Huger had a role in getting Lafayette temporarily released from prison at Olomouc in the 1790s. [cite book|title=Lafayette, Man in the Middle|author=Sabra Holbrook|publisher=Atheneum|date=1977|isbn=9780689305856|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UXdKAAAACAAJ&dq=lafayette+man+in+the+middle|page=p. 18] Huger was killed in an accidental friendly fire incident near Charleston, South Carolina. His grandson was the Confederate General Benjamin Huger. [cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the American Revolution|date=1974|publisher=McKay|location=New York|isbn=0-8117-0578-1|author=Boatner, Mark Mayo, III]
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