The American Revolution in the South

The American Revolution in the South is neglected in many accounts of the period, Walter Edgar explains, but it involved some of the most vicious battles and intense partisan struggles of the entire war. The British failed in their first attempt to suppress the American Revolution in the South when a Royal Navy flotilla was repulsed at Fort Sullivan in 1776. The British returned in 1778 to capture Savannah. In 1780 they took Charleston and launched a campaign to crush the Revolution in the Carolinas and Virginia. Walter Edgar retraces the path to the ultimate American victory in the South, which secured the independence of the new United States.

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