Here are compelling portraits of the brooding Sir Henry Clinton, the intelligent but deeply flawed British commander in chief who would become the scapegoat for the loss of America and the dashing cavalryman Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, hero in Britain, villain in America. Scrupulously researched, this sweeping account offers fresh insights into the character and performance of such legendary figures as Lord Cornwallis, an instinctive combat commander whose dramatic reliance on bayonets and zeal could not salvage a crucial campaign. Beginning with the Battle for Sullivan's Island, when William Moultrie and his raw South Carolinians repelled the British as they tried to "restore the authority of the King's government in the four southern provinces," historian John Buchanan weaves a fascinating narrative that builds steadily to the campaign's riveting climax at Guilford Courthouse.
The Road to Guilford Courthouse vividly recounts this little-known yet pivotal episode, a bloody campaign that led to what could only be called a hollow British victory. The savage warfare that ensued was crucial in deciding the great issue at stake.
Aligned with a few hardbitten Continental regiments, they took on brave British regulars and German J?gers whose discipline and skill would be wasted by their leaders.
It was a campaign of attrition fought by "back country" rebels who invented new tactics to suit the terrain of their New World. The British attempt to recapture the Carolinas (1780-1781) is one of the most fascinating untold stories of the American Revolution.
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