“villains . . . heat of the day”: Lamb (Lemuel) Benton to Mathews, August 20, 1782 (Gibbes2, 208). received a sinecure ... resigned the position: James, 99–100; Cooper, Statutes, 1752–1786, ...
This book highlights the unique style of southern frontier warfare during the Revolutionary War, and how its combatants were supplied, organized, and operated.
... of the Blockade,” April 21, 23, 1781 (quotation at April 21); Ferguson, “Exploratory Archeology,” 17, 29; James, 61; John Thomas Scharf, History of Maryland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day (Baltimore, 1879), 2:417.
In The Swamp Fox, John Oller compiles striking evidence and brings together much recent learning to provide a fresh look both at Marion, the man, and how he helped save the American Revolution.
As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British ...
This book highlights the unique style of southern frontier warfare during the Revolutionary War, 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 ...