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Item specifics
- Condition
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781782006145
- Book Title
- Swamp Fox : Francis Marion's Campaign in the Carolinas 1780
- Book Series
- Raid Ser.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 9.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes, Stacey, Mark, Shumate, Johnny
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / General, Military / United States
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1782006141
ISBN-13
9781782006145
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160059856
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swamp Fox : Francis Marion's Campaign in the Carolinas 1780
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / General, Military / United States
Illustrator
Yes, Stacey, Mark, Shumate, Johnny
Genre
History
Book Series
Raid Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-474594
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
42
Dewey Decimal
973.3/36
Synopsis
Opposed by "Bloody" Tarleton's Raiders, American Revolution patriots under Francis Marion fought a brutal guerrilla war throughout South Carolina and North Carolina. The American Revolution was deadlocked in the north, and after the battle at Monmouth Courthouse in 1778 the focus of the conflict shifted south. Following-up on his decisive May 12, 1780 victory at Charleston, South Carolina, Cornwallis launched a campaign through the Carolinas that was designed to expel American Continental and militia forces from the southern theater. With a second British victory at Camden in August, conventional American forces adopted a policy of avoiding another large battle in favor of smaller, more limited operations. As regular forces were constrained by traditional logistics and organization, soldiers like Francis Marion were able to inflict numerous raids and skirmishes against British and Loyalist forces, after which they would dissolve to form and fight at a later time. Cornwallis subsequently directed contingents to secure the countryside and capture such leaders, but the Patriot victory at King's Mountain (October), forced him to withdraw into South Carolina in what was one of the turning points in the Revolutionary War. To the southeast, Francis Marion continued his hit-and-run operations in which his band rescued American prisoners at Nelson's Ferry, dispersed Loyalist forces at Blue Savannah (September), and defeated a British outpost at Black Mingo (September). When Marion defeated Loyalist militia at Tearcoat Swamp in October, Cornwallis responded to this string of raids across northeastern South Carolina by assigning his aggressive cavalry commander, Banastre Tarleton, to capture or kill the rebel guerrilla commander. What followed was an unsuccessful two-week pursuit of the elusive Marion, in which Tarleton practiced a scorched-earth policy that ultimately disillusioned Loyalist sympathizers and hurt the British cause in the Carolinas. Unlike much of the Revolutionary War in the north, the fighting in the Carolinas was generally less civilized and brutal, with Loyalists and Rebels in roughly equal numbers. Except for Cornwallis' British regulars and Greene's Continental army, militias and irregular forces were the norm. A Raid book covering the Marion/Tarleton (British) struggle would be used to showcase this style of frontier warfare, and how its combatants were supplied, organized, and operated. Although not a single, defined raid, the series of actions between August and November 1780 illustrate Marion's unconventional, yet successful, efforts to hinder their enemy's war effort in the south, and Tarleton's equally irregular efforts to counter it.
LC Classification Number
E236
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