On 28 June 1776 British admiral sir peter parker launched an attack on Fort Sullivan in Charleston Harbor. The invasion was successfully repulsed by Colonel William moultrie, in whose honor the fort was renamed later that year (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ). Lehré enclosed a copy of the thirty-five toasts printed in the 5 July 1813 Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, which were offered at the 28 June 1813 celebration of the Palmetto Society. The fifth toast honored “Thomas Jefferson—The Statesman and the Philosopher, the great champion of Republicanism, and the scourge of Aristocracy.” The first American frigate lost in the War of 1812 was the chesapeake, defeated by the British frigate Shannon on 1 June 1813 (Heidler and Heidler, War of 1812 description begins David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 1997 description ends , 98–9). President James Madison had recently appointed former South Carolina congressman David Rogerson williams a brigadier general (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 2:352, 354 [10, 14 June 1813]; ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ).