TRUE FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY: The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution

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Uses battlefield terrain analysis and the words of the officers and common soldiers, from pension records and little-known interviews, to bring to life the crucial role of one militia regiment - the Second Spartans of South Carolina -- that fought in virtually every action of the vicious back-country war that decided the fate of America. Details how the Loyalist militia was virtually destroyed at King's Mountain, the battle that Lord Clinton, the British commander in Chief, said was 'the first link in a chain of events that followed each other in regular succession until they at last ended in the total loss of America.' Other defeats at Blackstock's Farm and Cowpens, and a Pyhrric victory at Guilford Courthouse, gutted the British Southern Army and drove Cornwallis north to encirclement and surrender at Yorktown. Discusses brutal warfare between Patriots and Loyalists. Contains 16 pages of photos.