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 objectiv

An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independence An estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolutio

As the American Revolution in the North drew to a stalemate around New York, in the South the British finally came to terms with the reality of defeat. Southern

“Dennis shows, lucidly and vividly, how white South Carolinians and Natives struggled with each other through the Revolutionary era . . . a sparkling read.”

After failing to defeat the Continental Army in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the first half of the Revolutionary War, British gene