The Georgia-Florida Contest in the American Revolution, 1776-1778 - Softcover

Searcy, Martha C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817350918 ISBN 13: 9780817350918

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2003

Synopsis

Almost from the time of Georgia’s settlement by Oglethorpe in 1733, both Georgians and Carolinians had made periodic unsuccessful attempts to conquer the Spanish Castillo San Marcos in St. Augustine; and during the American Revolution (in 1776, 1777, and 1778) the rebels tried without success to take the fortification, which was then a British stronghold. Each of the three expeditions was less successful than the preceding one, and between the formal campaigns vicious partisan warfare between loyalists and rebels devastated much of the area between the Altamaha and St. Johns rivers. This book presents a detailed history of the three Georgia-Florida campaigns. Indecisive and lacking the glamour of either the contemporary campaigns in the North, or the later campaigns in the South, they appeared isolated from the mainstream of the revolutionary struggle. The rebels were handicapped by divided command, personal quarrels, di

About this title

About the Author:

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Martha Condray Searcy is Assistant Professor of History, The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Review:

"Searcy vividly demonstrates the confusing alliances that formed, succeeded or failed, and re-formed while rebels, Britons, black slaves, and Native Americans reacted to pressures of trade and commerce, landholding, bad weather, lack of food, sickness, and erratic military officers."

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0817350918
• ISBN 13: 9780817350918
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312