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    A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780

    By Carl P. Borick

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    A detailed account of the tactics, strategy, and grassroots galvanization in a pivotal Revolutionary War campaign

    In 1779 Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York, seeking to capture the colonies' most important southern port, Charleston, South Carolina. Clinton and his officers believed that victory in Charleston would change both the seat of the war and its character. 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.

    Suggesting that the importance of the siege has been underestimated, Borick contends that the British effort against Charleston was one of the most critical campaigns of the war. Borick examines the reasons for the shift in British strategy, the efforts of their army and navy, and the difficulties the patriots faced as they defended the city. He explores the roles of key figures in the campaign, including Benjamin Lincoln, William Moultrie, and Lord Charles Cornwallis.

    Borick relies on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources relating to the siege and includes 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateAug 2, 2012
    ISBN9781611171686
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      This is a solid piece of academic military history that can be read by both experts and the newcomers to the field with advantage. If nothing else Borick seems to cover all aspects of the campaign from politics to operational concerns to epidemiology and do so in such a matter as to not detract from the overall flow of the narrative. Certainly one of the better military studies I've seen about the American Revolution, and it's now pretty much possible to read good modern accounts of all the major actions of the war in the South.