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Bermuda's links with Charleston and the southern colonies (now states of the United States) were foundational, with the archipelago having been settled in 1609-1612 (the Spanish name for the previously unoccupied archipelago derived from the surname of mariner [[Juan de Bermudez]] and was officially replaced in 1612 with ''Virgineola'', which was soon changed to ''The Somers Isles'' in commemoration of Admiral Sir [[George Somers]], but the Spanish name has resisted replacement) by the [[London Company|Virginia Company]] as an extension of [[Jamestown, Virginia]], with both [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] and the [[Province of Carolina]] having been settled from Bermuda in 1670 by settlers under [[William Sayle]], and with most of the 10,000 emigrants from Bermuda between settlement and the gaining of independence by the United States having settled in the South. The ties with Virginia and South Carolina were especially close, and Bermuda's wealthy merchant families had established branches in Charleston and other important Southern Atlantic ports to control trade through those cities and otherwise play important roles (examples including two of the sons of prominent Bermudian Colonel [[Henry Tucker (of The Grove)|Henry Tucker]] (1713–1787), [[St. George Tucker]] (1752-1827), and [[Thomas Tudor Tucker]] (1745-1828)). [[Denmark Vesey]] also came to Charleston from Bermuda. Less wealthy Bermudians settled sometimes together, founding towns, and there are now [[Bermuda (disambiguation)#United Statesm|many locations in the South that have been named after the islands of Bermuda]]. The close ties of blood and trade between Bermuda and the South meant most white Bermudians, at least, had strong sympathies with the South and Bermuda's proximity to Charleston made it the ideal location from which to smuggle European manufactured weapons into Charleston and cotton out via Confederate [[blockade runner]]s during the [[American Civil War]]. Also during that war, First Sergeant [[Robert John Simmons]] was a [[Bermuda|Bermudian]] who served in the [[54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] [[Regiment]], who died in Charleston in August 1863 as a result of wounds received in the [[Battle of Fort Wagner]].

 

 

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