Sunday, July 7, 2019

Happy Independence Day The Overmountain Men

Via Papa

 

General Cornwallis had as his strategy to conduct war in South Carolina, taking and holding the important port city of Charleston, and then move north through North Carolina, meeting up with General Howe to end the campaign.  It was a bold plan, and he had dealt a blow to the continental forces on the field of battle on a number of occasions.

But the size of the continent and the temperament of the people made it impossible to prosecute a war of this kind with the forces and lines of logistics he had at his disposal.  The linchpin of his plan called for the utilization of loyalist forces to do battle with patriots.

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  1. Please check out latest on https://revisedhistory.wordpress.com "JOHN Parker and MARY Lincoln" about the Lincoln assassination. Posted 7/7/19.

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