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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Path to Victory
1778 British forces moved South
Thought that the Southern loyalists would support the British
British were failing in the North, too much countryside to control
South was close to British colonies in the West Indies○ British planned to shift troops and supplies
back and forth
1780 1778 British General Henry
Clinton landed in South CarolinaTrapped American forces in
Charles Town5,000 American soldiers
surrenderedWorst American defeat of the war
In retaliation, General Gates formed a new army in the southHeaded to Camden, SC to
challenge the British General Lord Cornwallis
Francis Marion Known as the ‘Swamp
Fox’ Met up with Gates on
his way to Camden Gates was forced to
retreat as his forces were unprepared for the British
Francis Marion hears about the defeat and frees American prisoners and returns them to Gates
Francis Marion cont’d Francis Marion
used ‘guerilla warfare’ in the South Carolina swamplandsGuerilla Warfare:
Small band of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit and run attacks
Southbound Many battles were taking place in the
Southern United StatesVicious fighting1780, Battle of King’s Mountain
○ 1,000 Loyalists killed by the Americans in retaliation for British & Loyalist massacres on Patriots