| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Early Threats -- A "Very Essential Business" Begins -- Reaction North and South -- The British on the Sea Islands -- That Infernal Bar -- The Defenders of Charleston -- Across the Ashley -- Siege Warfare -- Breaking Ground: The Siege Begins -- The Cooper River Communication -- The Noose Tightens on Charleston Neck -- Investiture. |
| Summary |
"In 1779, Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York to try a new tack in the war against the American patriots - capturing the colonies' most important southern port. Clinton and his officers believed that the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, would change both the seat of the war and its character. The British were correct on both counts, but the effect of the charge was defeat. In this comprehensive study of the 1780 siege and surrender of Charleston, Carl P. Borick offers a full examination of the strategic and tactical elements of Clinton's operations." |
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"Suggesting that scholars traditionality have underestimated its importance, Borick contends that the siege was one of the most wide-ranging, sophisticated, and critical campaigns of the war. While striking a devastating blow to American morale, it transformed the war in South Carolina from a conventional eighteenth-century conflict into a partisan war." "Drawing on letters, journals, and other records kept by American, British, and Hessian participants, Borick relies on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources relating to the siege. He includes contemporaneous and modern maps that depict the British approach to the city and the complicated military operations that led to the patriots' greatest defeat of the American Revolution."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Siege of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina : 1780) |
| Chronological Term |
1780 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Borick, Carl P., 1966- Gallant defense. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2003 1570034877 (DLC) 2002013378 (OCoLC)50511391 |
| ISBN |
9781611171686 (electronic book) |
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1611171687 (electronic book) |
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9781611171396 |
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1611171393 |
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1570034877 |
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9781570034879 |
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