The%20American%20Revolution%20In%20The%20South%20by%20Dave%20Booz

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The American Revolution In The SouthbyDave Booz
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The British decide to conquer the South

• Benjamin Lincoln

• The Americans, led by General Benjamin Lincoln,
  held Savannah and Charleston but the British
  thought that most of the population would be on
  the Kings side.
• Savannah fell quickly to the British at the end
  of 1778.
• The Americans, with French help, tried to
  re-capture the city.

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The Charleston Campaign
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British Leaders in the South

• Lord Charles Cornwallis

• Colonel Banastre Tarleton

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The Swamp Fox

• Francis Marion

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Gates and de Kalb

• Horatio Gates

• Baron Johan de Kalb

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Battle of Camden, August 1780

• Gates had moved his men through barren land and
  he placed too much hope on his militia.
• The British routed the American militia within
  minutes and the Maryland and Delaware
  Continentals fought to the finish.
• Gates, on his race horse, ran off when the
  militia broke and did not stop until he got tot
  Charlotte, N.C.
• De Kalb stood and died with his men.

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Hessians These troops continued to fight for
the King of England
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The Southern Campaigns in 1780
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Morgan and Greene

• Daniel Morgan

• Nathanael Greene

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The Southern Campaign in 1781
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The Continentals from Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia outfought the British regulars
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Tarletons force was destroyed

• The Americans lost 12 killed and 124 wounded the
  British lost 110 killed, 229 wounded and 900
  prisoners, plus 2 cannons. Tarleton did manage to
  escape.
• Another wing of the British force in the South
  was destroyed.
• Morgans use of the militia was brilliant.
• American morale soared and many Tories switched
  sides.

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Washington moves to Virginia

• Cornwallis had moved into Virginia after the
  battle at Guilford Court House and established a
  base at Yorktown.
• During the summer of 1781 the British raided into
  Virginia and hoped that they would receive large
  reinforcements.
• Washington had sent the Marquis de Lafayette and
  Baron von Steuben to watch Cornwallis and try to
  stop him.
• With the help of the French Washington moves south

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The Siege of Yorktown

• The French navy, under Admiral Comte de Grasse,
  beat the British under Admiral Graves at the
  Battle of the Chesapeake and the British were
  trapped in Yorktown.
• The Americans and French cooperated wonderfully
  and laid siege to the British. The cannons fired
  day and night and the Allies dug trenches to get
  closer to the British forts.
• The Allies captured several British forts and
  made it impossible for the British to get any
  rest.

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Yorktown
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Washington and Rochambeau formed a great team
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The British Surrender at Yorktown
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Results of Yorktown

• The Allies lost 72 killed and 180 wounded.
• The British lost 309 killed, 326 wounded, and
  8,087 prisoners another army was captured by
  the Rebels.
• British public opinion was very much against
  continuing this war.
• The British had now lost almost all of their
  conquests except New York.
• British diplomats agree to meet the Americans and
  French to conclude a peace treaty. This treaty
  will be the Treaty of Paris of 1783 in which the
  British recognize the independence of the United
  States of America.

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Summary of the War in the South

• The British were very successful at first but
  they could not control all of the land and
  American forces survived disasters to fight
  another day.
• The Americans finally found the right leaders and
  gained local support they did not win all of the
  big battles but they always managed to inflict
  heavy loses on the British after Kings Mountain.
• The British lost the support of the local
  populations in the South and also lost the
  support of the people at home so that the war
  became very unpopular in Britain. This led to the
  end of the war.