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From Savannah to Yorktown

2000-01-20 History
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Release : 2000-01-20
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Book Synopsis From Savannah to Yorktown by : Henry Lumpkin

Download or read book From Savannah to Yorktown written by Henry Lumpkin. This book was released on 2000-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodshed in the American Revolution began in Massachusetts and ended in South Carolina. That the last major action of the war occurred in the South was no accident. The British regarded the South as their best chance of crushing the rebellion, and a southern strategy governed British military campaigning during the decisive years from 1778 to 1781. How that strategy failed in Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia is answered in this highly readable military history, which carries the reader from the early backcountry skirmishes to the climactic triumph at Yorktown. From Savannah to Yorktown sketches many of the colorful field commanders, discusses the weaponry and uniforms, and, above all, unfolds the battle events, strategy, and tactics. Well-illustrated with maps, portraits, battle scenes, and arms, this first comprehensive military history devoted to the American Revolution in the South will be welcomed by anyone interested in the southern battleground of freedom.

Savannah Spell to Yorktown

2010-05-06 Fiction
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Release : 2010-05-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Savannah Spell to Yorktown by : Nyw Peacocke

Download or read book Savannah Spell to Yorktown written by Nyw Peacocke. This book was released on 2010-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical novel includes adventure and romantic triangle between a Colonial planter's daughter Kathryn and two suitors, Martin a Patriot and Loyalist Brent during the American War for Independence. Other characters include a dynamic multiracial girl, Sky, who is so poor she has no last name. Sky is orphaned when drunken seamen slaughter her mother and father, owner of a liquor still and pimp for her mother. She is left with only the clothes on her back and her grandmother's black voodoo teachings. She survives by murder and selling herself into slavery. Although love eludes her she pursues happiness in her own rainbow and her child. Nicole of Philadelphia creates a minor, second and scandalous triangle with her obsession to marry the Caldwell family's fortune and elegant mansion. Based on the era's factual history the story begins in Savannah but moves to Charleston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Paris and London. Others also sell themselves. One, a Minister's daughter to escape her strict parents becomes pregnant by a militiaman who is killed in an Indian skirmish. Brent marries an Indian of high status in his need for Indian support in coming battles. Seldom has a romantic historical novel contained so much valid military action (see customer reviews, Amazon). Thus it appeals to all. In Charleston, the largest US surrender until World War II, marks the low point of the Patriot's cause. Eventually characters travel to Europe. Surprisingly London is a lively place either because of or in spite of England's loss. Threads of the inequality of women and the coming War Between the States are clearly exposed even at this early time. There is a similarity between these characters and the colonies gnawing the umbilical cord that binds them to mother England.

To Make this Land Our Own

2007 History
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Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis To Make this Land Our Own by : Arlin C. Migliazzo

Download or read book To Make this Land Our Own written by Arlin C. Migliazzo. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants. Arlin C. Migliazzo contends that the story of Purrysburg Township, founded in 1732 and set in the forbidding environment bounded by the Savannah River and the Coosawhatchie swamps, challenges the notion that white colonists shed their ethnic distinctions to become a monolithic culture. He views Purrysburg as a laboratory in which to observe ethnic phenomena in the colonial and antebellum South. Separated by linguistic, religious, and cultural barriers, the émigrés adapted familiar social processes from their homelands to create a workable sense of community and identity. His work is one of only a handful of examples of what has been deemed the "new social history" methodology as applied to a South Carolina subject. Initially devastated by privation and a high mortality rate, Purrysburg residents also suffered the vicissitudes of an indifferent provincial elite, the encroachment of lowcountry rice planters, Prevost's invasion in 1779, and ultimate destruction of the settlement by Sherman's army. Migliazzo details the community's changing military and economic fortunes, the gradual displacement of its residents to neighboring communities, the role of African Americans in the region, the complex religious life of township settlers, and the quirky contributions of Purry's climatological speculations to the fateful siting of this first township.

Patriots & Indians

2017-05-15 History
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Release : 2017-05-15
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Book Synopsis Patriots & Indians by : Jeff W. Dennis

Download or read book Patriots & Indians written by Jeff W. Dennis. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dennis shows, lucidly and vividly, how white South Carolinians and Natives struggled with each other through the Revolutionary era . . . a sparkling read.” —Walter Nugent, author of Habits of Empire Patriots and Indians examines relationships between elite South Carolinians and Native Americans through the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians interacted with Indians in business and diplomatic affairs—as enemies and allies during times of war and less frequently in matters of scientific, religious, or sexual interest. Jeff W. Dennis elaborates on these connections and their seminal effects on the American Revolution and the establishment of the state of South Carolina. Dennis illuminates how southern Indians and South Carolinians contributed to and gained from the intercultural relationship, which subsequently influenced the careers, politics, and perspectives of leading South Carolina patriots and informed Indian policy during the Revolution and early republic. In eighteenth-century South Carolina, what it meant to be a person of European American, Native American, or African American heritage changed dramatically. People lived in transition; they were required to find solutions to an expanding array of sociocultural, economic, and political challenges. Ultimately their creative adaptations transformed how they viewed themselves and others. “In this meticulously researched volume, Jeff Dennis focuses on the Cherokee and South Carolinians to explore the complex relations between Indians and colonists in the Revolutionary era. Dennis provides a valuable new perspective on America’s founders, identifying a clear link between Revolutionary radicalism and animosity toward Indians that shaped national policy long after the Revolution.” —James Piecuch, author of Three Peoples, One King

Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia

2006-01-01 History
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Release : 2006-01-01
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Book Synopsis Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia by : David Lee Russell

Download or read book Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia written by David Lee Russell. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the story of James Oglethorpe and of Georgia's colonial days from its birth as a colony in 1733 to its emergence as a free state 50 years later. It includes, from Georgia's perspective, details of the military and political movements that led tothe Revolutionary War. The plight of the common settler is also presented"--Provided by publisher.

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