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This week episode 2008 Fort Morris and Augusta.

A few weeks ago, I covered the British capture of Savannah, Georgia.

This was the first real effort by the British to do anything in the southern colonies since Sir Henry

Clinton failed to capture Fort Sullivan back in early 1776. Even that earlier

assault in Charleston Harbor was a sideshow to the main British effort from 1776 through 1778 to control the middle colonies, particularly New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

With that whole effort in the Middle Colonies having come to a failure, the British in 1779

focused more on trying to restore control of the southern colonies

with limited armies that they still had available in America.

The capture of Savannah at the end of 1778 was the kickoff to that new southern campaign.

George Washington had already issued orders recalling Continental General

General Robert Howe by the British attacked Savannah,

but at the time he was still in command during the battle because his

replacement General Benjamin Lincoln had not yet arrived.

Howe's loss at Savannah in a route drew criticism from all sides.

Georgia officials complained that Howe had not done enough to defend the state.

Other Continental Generals criticized his... Howe had not done enough to defend the state.

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