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The American Revolutionary War in the south: Further Reflections from a British perspective in the light of The Cornwallis Papers by Ian Saberton

Relying principally on Ian Saberton's edition of The Cornwallis Papers: The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Theatre of the American Revolutionary War, 6 vols (Uckfield UK: The Naval & Military Press Ltd, 2010), this work opens with an essay containing a groundbreaking critique of Cornwallis's decision in 1781 to march from Wilmington, North Carolina, into Virginia, a decision that was critical in a series of events that cost Britain the southern colonies and lost it the entire war. Together, this and the remaining essays comprise a comprehensive re-evaluation of the momentous and decisive campaigns that terminated in Cornwallis's capitulation at Yorktown and the consolidation of American independence.

About Ian Saberton

Ian Saberton was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield, and at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick in the UK. He holds a PhD in history from the latter, having previously graduated with a BA (Hons) in Russian from the former. After translating technical Russian for the British Library, he entered the UK Government Service.Perhaps of greatest relevance to his writing about the war in the south was his service as an adviser on constitutional and political affairs, machinery of government, contingency planning, devolution and the like in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) at the height of the troubles. Part of his duties, as the highways and byways of the world were searched for lessons to be learnt, was to write historical papers of an applied nature for the benefit of Ministers. It is then that he became keenly interested in the American Revolution. Overall, what his service in NIO has brought to his re-evaluation of the southern campaigns is hands-on experience in dealing with a quasirevolutionary situation. There are, despite the passage of years, distinct parallels to be drawn between the troubles and the revolutionary war in America.

1 The Decision that lost Britain the War: An Enigma now resolved 2 Britain's last throw of the dice begins the Charlestown Campaign of 1780 3 Midsummer 1780 in the Carolinas and Georgia Events predating the Battle of Camden 4 The Glorious Sixteenth and the Action at Fishing Creek 5 Cornwallis quits Charlotte, abandoning the Autumn Campaign of 1780 6 Cornwallis's refitment at Winnsborough, his Defence of South Carolina, and the Start of the Winter Campaign 1 November to 18 January 1781 7 Cornwallis and the Rest of the Winter Campaign 19 January to 7 April 1781 8 The aborted Virginia Campaign and its Aftermath May to August 1781 9 The Siege and Capitulation of Yorktown and Gloucester 10 Decoding British ciphers used in the south, 1780-81 11 Fire-hunting by Night in South Carolina A Pursuit of British Officers 12 Certain British and British American actors in the Southern Theatre of the War 13 Biographical sketches of Royal Militia commanders in the Carolinas and Georgia, 1780-82 14 The Management of Sequestered Estates in South Carolina, 1780-82

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The American Revolutionary War in the south: Further Reflections from a British perspective in the light of The Cornwallis Papers by Ian Saberton

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Ian Saberton

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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd

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2022-08-18

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