This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593318501 ISBN13: 9780593318508 Release Date: July 2024 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Length: 400 Pages Weight: 1.58 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.4" A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story--fully explored--of the critical aspect of America's Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America's first civil war. The famous battles that form the backbone of the story put forth of American independence--at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth--while crucial, did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown. It was in the three-plus years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won. Alan Pell Crawford's rivetin