[Pharmboy]

It's not that the South is downplayed during the RevWar: what has traditionally been the key for PR value is whether General Washington was present or not at any given battle...and he was a Southerner, wasn't he?

[Pharmboy]

Here's something else that the South contributed during the RevWar:

RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...Freepmail me to get ON or OFF this list.

[wagglebee]

General Francis Marion, "The Swamp Fox" (One of the main figures that Mel Gibson's character in "The Patriot" was based on.)

[hedgetrimmer]

The General was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, as was James Monroe.

[Pelham]

The War moved to the South after 1777. The English aimed their main thrust south to split the colonies and defeat the rebel armies in detail. What followed were The Battle of Cowpens. King's Mountain. Eutaw Springs. 96. The Battle of Huck's Defeat. The Race to the Dan. Yorktown.

There was a lot of Patriot vs Torie civil war in the South in addition to fighting against the Redcoats. At King's Mountain a self-organized militia of 'over the moutain men' pursued and trapped a Tory militia army on a hilltop and shot them to pieces. During that battle the patriot militia terrified the Tories with a high pitched 'indian' shriek, the ancestor of the rebel yell heard 80 years later. This history has been an interest of mine, I have a half dozen ancestors who played a role in it.

[Tanniker Smith]

"North Carolina yields to South Carolina."

"South Carolina votes Nay on America Independence."
"North Carolina votes . . ."
Yes, we have it already.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

About time!

(I have ancestral roots in York County, so this is cook)

A nice resource for both King's Mountain and Cowpens:

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/revwar/KM-Cpns/AWC-KM-FM.htm

[Dr. Scarpetta]

"Patriot & Loyalist Rosters & Annotated Journals
For Carolina Revolutionary War Battles"
by Dr. BOBBY GILMER MOSS

http://scotia-hibernia-press.com/