[WhiskeyPapa]

Oh, by the way, there was this little battle called Saratoga. Also, I seem to recall someone crossing the Delaware river and defeating the Hessians.

Yes, the Brits moved south in part because of lack of meaningful success in the northern colonies.

Keep bumping this thread; the more people who see this nonsense, the better.

Walt

[Leesylvanian]

Yes, the Brits moved south in part because of lack of meaningful success in the northern colonies.

The Brits moved south because they had most of the North wrapped up.

Trivia time: When General Washington moved south to engage Cornwallis on the Virginia peninsula in a campaign that culminated at Yorktown, he needed to move through northern Virginia very quickly despite its nearly-impenetrable woods and terrain. He called upon his decades-old friend and fellow Burgess from Prince William County, Henry Lee II of Leesylvania, who was the father of Washington's favorite dragoon (cavalry) officer, "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, and therefore, the grandfather of General Robert E. Lee. Henry Lee, Colonel of the Prince William County militia, cleared the way by building a courduroy road through the woods (note to WhiskeyPapa and Ditto: the labor was done by white militia members, not slave labor). The roadway is still in existence and known to northern Virginians today as Telegraph Road.