8.2 PROJECT

SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN

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• The southern campaign began with British concern over the coarse of the war in the north
• The British won a battle at Saratoga, the regulars lost at the battle of Camden, the patriots won the battle of kings mountain, the regulars won the battle of cowpens
• The final battle at Eutaw Springs was the last major battle that the patriots won

SAVANNAH CHARLESTON AND CAMDEN BATTLES

BATTLE OF CAMDEN

• the battle of Camden was a major defeat for the continental army. Nathaniel Greene was later called the southern arm of the continental army.
• Patriot partisans were lead by Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens, and lastly William Harden

BATTLE OF CHARLESTON

• The first attempt by the British to capture Charleston had been thwarted by the ties and the resilience of the palmetto log fort that became known as fort Moultrie, and the British were successful the second time around

PARTISAN TROOPS AND GUERRILLA WARFARE

PARTISAN TROOPS

• The initial concept of partisan warfare involved the use of troops raised from the local population in a war zone. Partisan troops also suffered from a server lack of food and medicine supplies

GUERRILLA WARFARE

• Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as paramilitary personal armed civilians or irregulars used military tactics including ambushes sabotage raiders petty warfare hit and run tactics and mobility to fight a larger and less mobile traditional military

BATTLE OF KINGS MT.

• Took place on October 7, 1780. It was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the patriots militia over the loyalists militia in the southern campaign of the American Revolution

BATTLE OF COWPENS

• Took place on January 17, 1781. It was a decisive victory by the continental army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan in South Carolina over the British army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton during the southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War

BATTLE OF GULIFORDS COURT HOUSE

• On the afternoon of March 15, 1781, American and British forces clashed for several hours near Guilford courthouse. The battle was the culmination of several months of hard campaigning by the armies of Nathaniel Greene and Charles Cornwallis

BATTLE OF EUTAW SPRINGS

• September 8, 1781 American Revolution engagement fought near Charleston South Carolina between British troops under lieutenant colonel Alexander Stewart and American forces commanded by General Nathaniel Greene

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

• The siege of Yorktown also known as the battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown or the German battle ending on October 19, 1781at Yorktown Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combination force of American continental army troops led by General George Washington and French army troops led by the Comte de rochambeau over a British army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis

IMPORTANCE OF SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN

• Just as the American Revolution shaped the course of American history, the southern campaign dramatically altered the course of the revolution. The initial phrase of the war in the south brought a string of American victories, drove British forces from the region, crowded American loyalists, and pacified the southern states