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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.
Contents
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
