General Greene camped in my backyard here in North Carolina. Not my figurative "general area" back yard, my literal back yard. I have found many round balls, buttons, horse shoes, and buckles in my back garden and in the woods beyond. He camped here after the battle at Guilford Court House. Unfortunately my local historical society will not help me in preserving the site, nor any of my other known locations I, and my good friends, own across our county. I would love to see a video on the War of the Regulation here in North Carolina. Thank you for preserving this history. I am a born and raised Yankee, but history is history, and all deserves to be remembered, no matter the feelings associated. God Bless.
I still dislike the British. They killed many Minutemen P.O.W. in Arlington in a civilians home. My hometown had a casualty in Lexington RUBEN KENSINGTON of BEVERLY ma.
You can walk around the Northeast in old world clothes and nobody would be surprised, it would be like Japanese wearing kimonos and such around their country 🙋
Thank you for posting this! Proud native South Carolinian, here. I work mere miles from Cowpens battlefield, used to camp with Scouts each October at Kings Mountain, and have spent much time at the Ninety-Six historical site. Though covering every conflict in Georgia and the Carolinas would be impossible for the time constraints, you certainly did a great job with the highlights.
Being from Eastern Massachusetts and growing up right in the location of the events of the 1760's and 1770's; it was easy for me to become seriously interested in all things colonial and Revolutionary. In fact, I joined the Framingham Co of Militia and Minute when a teenager and for a few years participated in re-enactments. I was aware of the Southern actions but had no clear picture of them. The last couple of years I have been reading about those battles and campaigns to fill in the blanks. More partisan conflicts then the North it seems. Great video. Check out the Osprey title "Patriot Militiamen in the Am. Rev, 75-82" Covers the Southern conflicts.
My ancestors Jacob Daniel Scherer and Fredrich Scherer, father and son fought together for the patriot cause at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Their farm was 3 miles from the battlefield. Thank you for these amazing videos. If only this history was taught in our schools. We have so much to be thankful for.
Awesome! It's truly a travesty to me that he is not better known. General Greene is one of the greatest generals this country has ever had. His strategy of pulling the Brits away from their supplies was brilliant and he deserves to be remembered for what he is and the major role he played in winning our independence.
@@HistoryNerd808 I completely agree with you on that and like General Greene left an interesting legacy in America and what I mean by that is like after the death of Nathaniel Greene his family continued to fight for america because during the American civil war his Second Cousin George Sears Greene continued to mark his family name in American history by defending and holding Culps hill which was the Union Right Flank at the bloody battle of Gettysburg and like he also helped to teach the future confederate general Robert Edward Lee in engineering but also George Greene’s Kids left a legacy in America because his eldest son Samuel Greene was the executive officer on board the Uss Monitor and another son Francis Greene fought in the battle of Manila during the Spanish American war who fought alongside the father of General Douglas MacArthur.
I have been a member of the American Battlefield Trust since its founding and the American Civil War Trust before that. Live in NE Ohio and had a four times gr. grandfather that fought with the Patriots for 6 years. Have visited Cowpens and King's Mtn. and other sites in New England. Thank you for the great job making the war more assessable to all.
Very helpful. Thank you. So my great granddaddies 4th & 5th fought in the southern campaign. 5th, born in Ireland, remained loyal and fought with Cornwallis until Charleston was secured. His son, born in Camden 1755, was a Patriot. Patriot was captured at Brier Creek and taken prisoner to Savannah. We just tracked that this week on a trip to Savannah. It made it real.
@@richardlahan7068 That is right. And when I was a child they told me every time I went to the battlefield to find a rock and add it to the pile on his grave so they devil could not escape.
Thank you for making and posting this informative view of the Revolutionary War in the South. The Southern campaign is neglected in the usual history of the war and that is ironic since the war was won in the South.
Great video. You missed the battle of Ramsour’s Mill in Lincoln County NC on June 20, 1780. 400 patriot militia attacked and dispersed about 1,300 loyalists in a surprise attack. Many of the men who fought this “unknown” battle went on to fight at King’s Mountain.
It's amazing how much the Patriots got beat, but they continued to persist and fight. People also criticize George Washington as a mediocre commander, but he made all the right decisions, including sending Nathaniel Greene to the Carolinas
You should read more about Morgan. He had a long and distinguished career in the Continental Army that culminated with his victory at Cowpens. He hated the British from an incident during the French and Indian War (1755-1763) when he was whipped after soiling an officer's uniform. He retired from active service shortly after Cowpens, he suffered terrible pain from arthritis.
Read Robert Graves' "Sergeant Lamb's America" and "Proceed Sergeant Lamb" two books based on the true memoirs of Roger Lamb, a British Army sergeant who served in the 9th and 23rd Regiments of the British Army. The most comprehensive story of the American Revolution by a British Army soldier from Dublin, Ireland. Roger Lamb wrote two memoirs of his life as well.
I grew up in Norfolk, heard a few things about this battle , there is actually one building in downtown Norfolk ( pronounced Nawfulk) that has a cannon ball imbedded in building there.
Yes, the cannon ball is found in the wall of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Norfolk. When I worked in downtown Norfolk in the early 1980's I sometimes went to services there at lunchtime. You can see a photo of the cannonball in the Wikipedia article about the church. The cannonball was fired on January 1st, 1776.
I love this channel and I love the Maps that y’all put on! I’m not sure if y’all take requests but I live in Monroe Michigan where the Battle of Frenchtown took place during the war of 1812 and I was wondering if y’all could make an animated map of the battle the took place where I live? The River Raisin Battlefield is one of my favorite places to go and I would love to learn more about the battle that took place 5 minutes(car) away from my house!
The war had become a world war with France, Spain and the Dutch fighting the British. Yorktown did not end the fighting but the center of operations shifted to places like the Caribbean sugar islands. King George opposed ending the war threatening to resign but war weariness and the threat to these islands run by slave labor and more valued than the colonies (which only received 5% of the slaves imported to the new world and which according to Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence the British prevented the colonies from banning slavery) forced the British to sign the peace treaty.
@@tungstwn1241 It is a complicated and interesting subject. I would also suggest looking up the impact of the Haitian revolution, especially the rapes and slaughter of the Whites, and it's affects on Southern slavery which became much harsher as fears of race war grew.
@@generalbooger9146 Slavery was not on any burner. Until 1838 British colonies could not ban slavery at which time Britain compensated slave owners and all slaves were freed. Britain outlawed the international slave trade in 1808, not slavery in the colonies. Slaves of loyalists were not freed by the British. Slaves of rebels were offered freedom if they fought with the British, the object was gaining fighters not freeing slaves.
A friend that I shared this with commented that he would like to see a video on the Gulf Coast Campaign. I had to admit I hadn't heard of it - The Spanish role in the Revolution.
@420rgb2 2 Yes, you realize that the Fench and British Empires were fighting a world war over this right? Look up Admiral Suffren and his exploits in the Indian Ocean.
I liked this video a lot more than the overall "Revolution" one. Only thing for this video, is I would have included more details about why Camden was such an embarrassing defeat, and why Morgan placed his troops in such an unprecedented manner. At Camden, the American commander, General Gates, did not fully understand European tactics, thus he put his weakest troops in front of the British strongest troops. They were immediately dispersed, and the American line fell apart. At Cowpens, Morgan realized that the militiamen were dealdly accurate shooters but they could not stand up to British Regulars. So he placed them in the first two lines with the distinct instructions "fire two shots, and then you can retreat." The idea was for them to take down as many of the British as possible before they reached the main American line. The tactic worked so well, that Greene used it again at Guilford Courthouse.
I'm decended from the Savage family that lived at The Old Savage Farm. the site of the Battle of Ninety-Six. Mj. Wm. Savage one of three brothers who were British Officers that lived there, where the Star Fort was built, is my ancestor.
Watching this videos make me thing that an Strategy RPG based on the American Revolution could be an interesting game. I wonder why nobody ever done it?
The market for such a game would only be in America, which is too small of a market to make it worth producing. No one cares about the American Revolution outside of the US.
Such an RPG would be ground-breaking ig the programmer could be accurate with both Land forces and Naval actions as well as the effects of small bodies of water. That rarely happens.
May 20 1775 , Mecklenburg NC declares independence from Great Britain. I learned this recently while researching my roots. My Scottish ancestors were there. I am so grateful for them.
With the holidays coming up can we do a video on the battle of Trenton, the forgotten second battle of Trenton and the importance of new jersey to the revolution?
2:19 No, not Spider-Man that's a different Peter Parker. Oops, I just gave away his secret identity, sorry Spidey. 7:43 Famous last words (even if they weren't his last words ironic that he said them pretty much right before he died). 11:46 Whenever both ides claim victory that means its a draw.
Just saying but I know that I am going to love this video and the reason is you see I play the base drum in a pipe and drum band that is named after the famous famous brave and mighty and heroic and glorious and fantastic and fierce and stunning and stupendous and legendary and honorable and honored black watch which is a British Canadian and Scottish infantry regiment and its currently the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland and you see before it was known as the black watch it was known as the 42nd regiment of foot and during the southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War it took place at the siege of Charleston and Just saying but I would love to see an animated map of the northern campaign because that campaign included some well known battles including the great British victories at brandywine and Germantown and the big battle of Long Island and it also included the great patriot victory’s like Lexington and concord Saratoga and Monmouth The capture of fort Ticonderoga the famous sneak attack on Trenton the battle of Princeton Springfield and it also included the bloody British victory at bunker hill and just saying but I would love to see an animated map of the western campaign of the American revolutionary wars because even though it wasn’t as famous as the southern and northern campaigns the western campaigns brought famous people out west like Daniel Boone and the brother of the famous William Clark named George Rogers Clark and it also brought the Spanish into the war but more specifically Bernardo de Galvez Viscount of Galveston count of Galves in which he fought the British army for control of British west Florida defeating the British at Pensacola and mobile
As is usual the most significant strategic event in the American south was left out. General Galvez under direction from Washington put to gether a large army and moved from Texas to New Orleans and across the Florida panhandle and up into Georgia threatening Savannah. This held the British in the South in check so they could not help Cornwallis. This "hispanic" force was as most likely the largest army on North American when the Cornwallis surrendered.
Well, let me clarify few things. There is an article from The Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution ( SAR ) called ‘Spain and the Independence of The United States.’ After reading the article cannot be a surprise to know than Spanish Commander Bernardo de Galvez has the same honour of be Honorary Citizeship of the United States like Laffayete…
@@generalbooger9146 Yes, go to sleep and avoid the reality. The ignorance is another way of resting when you prefer to live in automatical way. Lazy but effective for the weaks living of fake histories as always. A standard reply from an standard person.
Ferguson: "God himself will not remove me from this mount....." *shot lands on him* Patriot: "You're right, God ISN'T removing you from the mountain, I am"
We fight, get beat, and rise to fight again. Yeah kinda sounds like us southern boys lol. Also sounds like that whole "the south will rise again" thing
Read Ferguson's entire letter. He was reacting to the many murders of innocent people at the hands of Whig militia. He spells it out very clearly, but historians have continuously ignored the parts that illustrate the brutality of the Whigs. Waxhaws was not a massacre. Buford had his men hold their fire until the charging dragoons were less than 10 yards from them. He screwed up. As his men were surrendering, some of them picked weapons back up and began fighting again, under white flags. Tarleton was pinned under his horse by a militiaman who surrendered then started fighting again. There are multiple accounts of this - but we continually ignore those parts....
Before corona I would take a niece to see a Shakespeare play twice a year. One time talking to the couple sitting behind us the subject of Julius Ceaser came up. I asked what happened on the ides of March? To their obvious answer I said no! The battle of guilford courthouse 1781.
Ferguson knew that the Overmountain Men were pursuing him, but he underestimated their mobility and spirit. He camped at KM without posting pickets, thinking they were still 1 to 2 days march behind.
As much as I would fancy listening to this video, I found it difficult to hear what the narrator was saying over the distracting background music/noise. 😢
In discussing about Southern State what need be mentioned is how Spain indirectly assistance via blocking British from using what now called State of Florida.Yet history book don’t mention this in history books.
Let me help you a bit in relation to the video: Great video and great job but as usual, americans or brits, hidding the role of Spain in your freedom. Supporting you in a key role was the Spanish Fleet (several battles US waters), Spanish Army (several battles in US land), Spanish funds ( continous support plus 500.000 dollars in cash collected in 24 hrs in La Habana, Cuba, to support you for the Battle of Yorktown), Spanish guns (thousands), Spanish uniforms (thousands), all kind of supplies, etc. Let me say For Your Information: The Spanish Commander Bernardo de Galvez is member of the Honorary citizenship of the United States like Lafayette or Churchill and in words of George Washington: 'Without the support of Spain it would not have been possible the success of my troops'. Very simple and very clear. History is history and has a colour impossible to change..and the south and the sea was sealed by the Spanish, ok?
So not a lot has changed in some senses; cities and coastal communities still believe in independence and freedom and progressive ideas while the backwood and rural folk still believe in just sticking with the old outdated ideas and old outdated ways.
Why Spain Crown is always forgotten? Yorktown battle was payed with Spanish silver. Along the hole war, Spain provided gunpowder, quinine, uniforms, blankets, guns and bayonets, canyons, ammunition, a way to the sea in New Orleans... and Bernardo de Gálvez. With an army of Spanish from the present Mexico and Cuba most of them, invaded british territory in America. British troops that had to combat in Florida and the Mississipi and they lost. Spain also sent its ships and payed the French ships to block the British supplies (France always has the merit, but Spain payed all the French ships and all the supplies). And not important for USA but very important for Spain. Spain was preparing a definitve assault to Gibraltar, illegally occupied by GB, but decided to help the American rebels. British had to choose between Gibraltar or the 13 colonies. And they decided to protect more Gibraltar, because they would retain Canada, enough for them. In "compensation", Spain never has been mentioned and even treated as evil (just have a look into school books of History and see the drawings of wonderful british settlers, good friends of indians and the horrible bloodthisty Spaniards). Florida was taken with the menace of "silver or plumb" (yes, Pablo Escobar was not so original). Spain sold Florida but never was payed. And denigration campaigns continued on newspapers and lectures (Hearst said: "I will put the war". And he did it). An excuse to invade Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philipines and try to destroy the Spanish culture there. And here we are.
@@stanlefort8584 Hola French Friend, silver and blood. (Pensacola, Mississipi, Natchez, Batón Rouge, etc.) We were the full package. You have Lafayette as Honorary Citizen and we Bernardo Galvez as Honorary Citizen too...so far.
Great maps, but I won't be watching any of these videos because I don't like all the inter-cut scenes of re-enactors running around with uniforms on, pretending they're wounded or whatever . It's just a boring distraction. For viewers of this kind of content the priority should be more on listening anyway.
