Скачать или смотреть The Forgotten General Who Almost Won America: Britain's Greatest Victory at Charleston

May 12th, 1780. Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces in the greatest victory of the American Revolution - a triumph so complete it should have won the war for King George III. Yet the brilliant general who orchestrated this masterpiece, Sir Henry Clinton, remains virtually unknown to history.

This is the untold story of Britain's most underestimated military genius, a methodical strategist whose siege of Charleston captured 5,000 American soldiers, 300 artillery pieces, and opened the entire South to British control. Clinton's 42-day siege was a masterclass in 18th-century warfare: coordinated naval and land operations, sophisticated engineering, psychological warfare, and strategic brilliance that left American General Benjamin Lincoln no choice but total surrender.

But Clinton's greatest victory became the foundation for his greatest failure. The decisions he made in Charleston's aftermath, the subordinate he trusted with the South, and the strategic vision that unraveled in the Carolina backcountry would lead directly to Yorktown and British defeat. This is the tragic story of a man who won the battle that should have won the war, only to watch everything collapse because of forces beyond his control.

Discover how Clinton's early career in the Seven Years' War shaped his tactical genius. Learn why his relationships with fellow generals William Howe and John Burgoyne poisoned British command in America. Understand the sophisticated siege tactics that made Charleston's fall inevitable. And witness how Lord Cornwallis's aggressive campaigns destroyed everything Clinton had built, turning triumph into catastrophe.

This documentary reveals the forgotten hero of British military history - a commander whose Charleston victory rivaled the greatest sieges in European warfare, but whose name was erased by the shadow of Yorktown's surrender. Through detailed analysis of the siege operations, the guerrilla warfare that followed, and the command dysfunction that plagued British forces, we expose the truth about the general who almost won America for Britain.

Sir Henry Clinton deserves to be remembered not for his subordinate's failure at Yorktown, but for his own masterpiece at Charleston - the most complete British victory of the entire Revolutionary War, achieved through patience, planning, and strategic brilliance that his contemporaries couldn't match and history has tragically forgotten.


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0:00 - Opening: Charleston Falls - May 12, 1780, Britain's greatest victory and the forgotten general who won it

15:23 - Clinton's Rise: From Seven Years' War combat to British Commander in Chief, battling jealous rivals and impossible expectations

31:47 - The Charleston Masterpiece: 42-day siege tactics, naval blockade, engineering brilliance, and total American surrender

48:52 - Triumph to Tragedy: Cornwallis's fatal campaigns, guerrilla warfare, and how the greatest victory led to Yorktown's defeat


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