Partisans and Redcoats the Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution (Paperback)

from ksmyth

Edgar's little book examines the nature of partisan warfare in South Carolina during the War of Independence. There is some great contextual work, examining the struggle to control the backcountry prior to war, and how that divided the frontiersmen between Tories and Whigs. Edgar advances the the...

from setnahkt

The American Revolution in back country South Carolina in a word: ugly. The British essentially had the war won after the capture of Charleston on May 12, 1780. There were no Continental troops left in the colony; all were POWs. All the civilian males and militia had been paroled and returned to ...

from Charlie

When the history of the American revolution against Great Britain is taught in schools, the emphasis is on Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge and Yorktown. Very rarely is there any mention of anything south of Virginia. That is unfortunate, for some of the greatest battles of the war t...

from Charlie

When the history of the American revolution against Great Britain is taught in schools, the emphasis is on Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge and Yorktown. Very rarely is there any mention of anything south of Virginia. That is unfortunate, for some of the greatest battles of the war t...