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100 1 $aGilbert, Oscar E.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aTrue for the cause of liberty :$bthe Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution /$cby Oscar E. Gilbert & Catherine R. Gilbert.
246 30 $aSecond Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution
264 1 $aHavertown, PA :$bCasemate Publishers,$c[2015]
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300 $a1 online resource (328 pages) :$billustrations, maps
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- A people bred to war -- The back country and the First Cherokee War -- Political maneuvering, 1769-1775 -- War comes to the South -- The Georgia campaign, 1779 -- The British ascendancy -- The imperceptible turning of the tide -- Chasing Ferguson: the politics of militia command -- King's Mountain, 7 October 1780: the day of battle -- King's Mountain aftermath -- Bloody Ban tastes defeat: Blackstock's Farm, 20 November 1780 -- The calm at the storm's eye -- The Cowpens, 17 January 1781 -- Cowpens aftermath -- Grinding down the British -- Finis in the South, 1782.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2016).
520 $a"Persuasively tells the savage partisan war in the Carolina backcountry ... [during] the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" (Military Review). Following their defeat at Saratoga in New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a southern strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to "roll up" the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Untrained Patriot militiamen'occasionally stiffened by contingents of the Continental Line'were pitted against Britain's Cherokee and Creek allies, and Loyalist militia and British regulars led by Gen. Cornwallis and his two ablest subordinates, Patrick Ferguson and the ruthless Banastre "Bloody Ban" Tarleton. In October 1780, the Loyalist militia was virtually destroyed at King's Mountain. Other defeats at Blackstock's Farm and Cowpens, and a pyrrhic victory at Guilford Courthouse, gutted the British southern army and drove Cornwallis north to encirclement and surrender at Yorktown. This study uses battlefield terrain analysis and the words of the officers and common soldiers, from pension records and little-known interviews, to bring to life the crucial role of one militia regiment'the Second Spartans of South Carolina'that fought in virtually every action of the vicious backcountry war that decided the fate of America. Or, as one private in the Second Spartans said, expressing admiration for his colonel: "a few Brave Men stood true for the cause of liberty." "A serious book for those with a serious interest in the southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War ... Many thanks to the Gilberts for shedding new light on the role of the Second Spartan Regiment." 'War in History.
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