The Battle of Sullivan's Island; The Rice Kings; Southern Strategy; The Approach March; Charleston Besieged; The Rise of Banastre Tarleton; Into the Back Country; Hearts and Minds; Trouble in the Back Country; More Trouble in the Back Country; A Hero Takes Charge; The Battle of Camden; The Partisans Fight On; The Rise of Patrick Ferguson; To Catch Ferguson; King's Mountain; Retreat and Turmoil; A General from Rhode Island; The Stage is Set; Tarleton Pursues Morgan; Cowpens; Bayonets and Zeal; Patience and Finesse; Guilford Courthouse: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody ; The Major Characters in Order of Appearance and What Happened to Them; Notes; A Selected and Annotated Bibliography; Index.
JOHN BUCHANAN is a popular historian who was an archivist at Cornell University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his nearly three decades on the staff of the museum, he was, for twenty-two years, chief registrar in charge of worldwide art movements. He lives with his wife in New York City.
"Outstanding popular military history . . . an accomplishment of the same high order as McPherson's "Civil War" historiography."--"Booklist""Chronologically connecting events from the siege of Charleston in April 1780, to the battle of Guilford Courthouse, almost a year later, Buchanan carefully weaves politics, battles and personalities into one of the fascinating stories of American independence."--"Roanoke Times""His compelling narrative brings readers closer than ever before to the reality of Revolutionary warfare in the Carolinas."--"Raleigh News & Observer""Buchanan makes the subject come alive like few others I have seen."--Dennis Conrad, editor of "The Nathanael Greene Papers"
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