This Destructive War

The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782

By: John S. Pancake

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Paperback | 28 February 1985

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A companion to Pancake's study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two books constitute a complete history of the Revolutionary War. Pancake tells a gripping story of the southern campaign, the scene of a grim and deadly guerilla war. In the savage internecine struggle, Americans fought Americans with a fierceness that appalled even a veteran like General Nathanael Greene. "Utilizing extensive manuscript collections, John Pancake explains not why the colonists won the War of Independence, but rather why the British lost. Yorktown, he argues, was not the result of a momentary oversight by the British navy, but the final consequence of the longstanding failure of British military and political leadership." So said the Journal of Southern History when This Destructive War was first published in 1985. The Florida Historical Quarterly further opined, "Pancake has given us a well-researched and beautifully--and tightly--written book." General readers as well as scholars and students of the American Revolution will welcome anew this classic, definitive study of the campaign in the Carolinas.

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"Anchored by Pancake's reflections on weaponry, military organization, tactics, and the lives of ordinary soldiers in both armies, this book emerges as a fresh, intricate story, full of dread and derring-do." -Anchored by Pancake's reflections on weaponry, military organization, tactics, and the lives of ordinary soldiers in both armies, this book emerges as a fresh, intricate story, full of dread and derring-do.---Kirkus "Anchored by Pancake's reflections on weaponry, military organization, tactics, and the lives of ordinary soldiers in both armies, this book emerges as a fresh, intricate story, full of dread and derring-do."--Kirkus

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Preface
Prologue	p. 1
Great Britain in Adversity	p. 5
The Evolution of Southern Strategy	p. 20
Rebels and Bloodybacks	p. 36
Charleston: 1780	p. 56
Whigs and Tories	p. 73
Camden	p. 91
King's Mountain	p. 108
Greene Takes Command: The Cowpens	p. 122
Doubt, Discord, and Despair	p. 141
Retreat	p. 157
Guilford Court House	p. 172
The Reconquest: Hobkirk's Hill	p. 187
The Reconquest: Ninety Six to Eutaw Springs	p. 204
"If Ponies Rode Men"	p. 222
Conclusion	p. 240
Notes	p. 245
Essay on Sources	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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