COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A bill approved today in the House could bring three battle flags captured in 1780 by the British back home to South Carolina.

The measure directs the state Budget and Control Board to give the State Museum money, and directs the museum to seek private donations or grants, to buy the flags.

It's estimated the flags will be sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York on Flag Day, June 14th, for between two and three million dollars.

The flags were captured by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton during the Battle of the Waxhaws in Lancaster County on May 29th, 1780. British troops killed 113 American soldiers and wounded 150.