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A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780

A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780 Paperback - 2012

by Borick, Carl P

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  • Title A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780
  • Author Borick, Carl P
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of South Carolina Press
  • Date 2012-08-18
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013762653
  • ISBN 9781611171396 / 1611171393
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
    • Locality: Charleston, South Carolina
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002013378
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.336

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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.

From the jacket flap

A detailed account of the tactics, strategy, and far-reaching consequences of a pivotal Revolutionary War campaign

About the author

Carl P. Borick is the assistant director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782.

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