Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter (2024)by Andrew Waters

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(2024)by Andrew Waters

Over the past several decades, the history of the American Revolution in the South has undergone a transformation to better incorporate regional events into the greater narrative of the war. Among these events was the vicious ¡°backcountry¡± war from the Georgia border, across the South Carolina wilderness, to the North Carolina Piedmont between rebel Americans and loyalist and British forces. Centered in South Carolina, this running battle saw some of the most intense and continuous fighting of the war, and from its skirmishes, feints, and sieges, three key leaders emerged: American partisans Francis ¡°Swamp Fox¡± Marion and Thomas ¡°Gamecock¡± Sumter, and British Legion commander Banastre ¡°Bloody Ban¡± Tarleton.

For the first time, Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter by Andrew Waters frames the history of these three men into in a single narrative, focusing on the events of 1780 in South Carolina that witnessed their collective ascendance from common soldiers to American legends. It was a time when British victories at Charleston and Camden left the Continental Army in tatters and the entire American South vulnerable to British conquest. Yet in those dark hours, Sumter, Marion, and others like them rose in the swamps and hills of the South Carolina wilderness. Fighting a wildly successful partisan war against better trained and better equipped British forces, including Tarleton¡¯s British Legion, with victories at lesser-known places like Hanging Rock and Nelson¡¯s Ferry, they gained precious months for the reorganizing Continental Army. Their collective efforts led to the stunning American victory at Cowpens and a stalemate at Guilford¡¯s Courthouse the following year that finally convinced British general Charles Cornwallis to abandon the Carolinas for Virginia.

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