Abstract: Summary: "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 riveting new book, This Fierce People, tells the story of these missing three years, long ignored by historians, and of the fierce battles fought in the south that made up the central theater of military operations in the latter years of the Revolutionary War, upending the essential American myth that the War of Independence was fought primarily in the north. Weaving throughout the stories of the heroic men and women, largely unsung patriots-African Americans and whites, militiamen and 'irregulars,' Patriots and Tories, Americans, Frenchmen, Brits and Hessians, Crawford reveals the misperceptions and contradictions of our accepted understanding of how our nation came to be, as well as the national narrative that America's victory over the British lay solely with General George Washington and his troops"-- Provided by publisher.
Content Notes: A spirit of independence -- Proud and jealous of their freedom -- The principal theater of the war -- Great guns bursting and wounded men groaning -- The blood be upon your head -- We may as well march on and starve -- The most tremendous firing I have ever heard -- Independence is all I wish -- It rained militia from the heavens -- Huzzah for King George! -- No longer an Englishman -- I surmount every difficulty -- Shout like hell, and fight like devils -- The rawest... most untutored being I ever met -- I rely upon your abilities and exertions -- Our greatest plague in this country -- Men in the right Indian style -- A devil of a whippin' -- I risque every thing -- I am wedded to my sword -- You are killing your own men! -- This day of blood -- They will not... fight like gentlemen -- We fight, get beat, and fight again -- A more noble ambition -- Thunder even at the gates of Charles Town -- Peace is not far off -- British horse came to Monticello -- No place so proper as Yorktown -- A solemn stillness -- God bless you, gentlemen! -- After the war.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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