[Pharmboy]

I never knew that South Carolina suffered so many casualties.

However, I would like to soften the critcism a bit (although what he says is basically true, IMO). The battles that have always gotten the most ink were those that General Washington was present for, and he stayed in the north until Yorktown.

[Pharmboy]

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[txhurl]

bttt

[Obie Wan]

The South was where the British Army met it’s (pardon the pun) Waterloo.Ironically the American southern troops were led by a Yankee name Nathanael Greene and greatly aided by New Jersey General Daniel Morgan. Washington was stalemated by British General Henry Clinton in New York so it took the southern theater to turn the Revolution in the American favor and TURN IT IN OUR FAVOR IT DID !!!

[DeaconBenjamin]

Partisans & Redcoats by Walter Edgar tells this story well.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

After the War Between the States, the former Confederate states were treated as conquered territory; ironic, considering the main point of the Union was that those eleven Southern states were still a part of the country and in rebellion, and it was those states who considered themselves a separate country(s) from the United States of America.

The War Between the States has been almost a paragon of history being written by the victor, though that has slowly been changing.

[the OlLine Rebel]

George wasn’t in the 1st set of battles - Lexington/Concord, and “Bunker Hill”.

They get LOTS of ink. More than any George battle. Perhaps because they’re the 1st.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“I can go back to my classroom this fall with a much stronger sense of how close we came to losing the war, if not for the victories down here — far away from New England.”

Wow, that sort of proves my “bigotted” point about New England from last week.

She mentions New England. Yet only the very 1st battles and the siege of Boston, and later Newport, really happened up there. (Burlington is debatable, since noone could agree if it was VT or NY - but it certainly wasn’t mainstream NE at the time.) Until Arnold’s invasion of his old neighbors after Yorktown. Otherwise, a few skirmishes.

Most of the “George” battles were New York and below. Yet even this woman had to mention it as if it was all about New England.

[Dysart]

I’m currently reading a comprehensive account of the Revolutionary War by John Ferling---"Almost A Miracle: The American Victory In the war of Independence”— which details the geographical scope of the war. Those of us in the South, who are willing to seek the information, already know about the southern battles, but we sure didn’t learn a great deal about it in school. As you might expect by the title Ferling does convey how close we came to losing the war and how it was indeed 'almost a miracle.' That's well known, but rarely has so much detail been provided. The accounts of the steadfastness of the soldiers, as well as the general population (often overlooked) are provacative, in that you can't help but wonder if we could do it today.

[aculeus]

Those Scots-Irish were Born Fighting.

I didn't vote for our Junior Senator but I recommend his book.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Just in case this thread somehow develops into a defense of the Confederate States of America, the Overmountain Men and the soldiers from the Watauga settlement were in an area which later became one of the strongest pro-Union areas in the nation, North or South, during the Civil War. I suspect a good number, maybe even the majority, of the descendants of the Overmountain Men were Union supporters in the later war.

If the central role of the South in the Revelation is a generally unknown fact, the presence of significant southern mountain sentiment for Lincoln and the Union is another.

[x]

There were a lot of Loyalists in South Carolina, so much of the early fighting was between American factions, not with the British. The Scots of North Carolina also tended to support the monarchy, and the battle of Moore's Creek in North Carolina in 1776 pitted Patriot militia against a Loyalist militia largely composed of the local Scots.

In the later years of the war, the British assumed that they could win over a majority of South Carolinians to their cause, but Banastre Tarleton's brutality and other Redcoat outrages worked to the benefit of the revolutionaries. The Waxhaw massacre and other atrocities turned the state against the monarchy.

The first phase of the war occurred in New England. After the New England Colonies were freed of British forces the action moved to the Middle Colonies and then the South. The British reckoned they'd have more support in provinces where the Anglican influence was stronger, so there was no attempt to retake New England.

A lot of the troops who fought in the later phases of the war were still New Englanders who'd signed on earlier, though. That was particularly true in the Middle Colonies -- New York and Philadelphia were still in British hands and troops were tied up in battles there. But the 1st Rhode Island Regiment fought at Yorktown. It had been reorganized in 1778 as an all African-American unit.

[MikeD]

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