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SMA nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week episode 213, the Battle of Briar Creek. Last week we looked at some of the British

efforts to expand on the capture of Savannah by sending an expedition to the

Port Royal Island in South Carolina and to set up a loyalist recruitment

center in Augusta, Georgia.

The Port Royal Expedition failed to secure the island, and the British only remained in Augusta for several weeks before withdrawing.

The British under Colonel Archibald Campbell left Augusta on February 14th, 1779, the same day as the Battle of Kettle Creek that I talked about last week.

Campbell had already issued orders to withdraw the day before, so the loss at Kettle Creek had nothing to do with his decision.

Rather, it had to do with the arrival of more Patriot militia reinforcements at Purisburg.

General Benjamin Lincoln had set up command at Purisburg, which sat on the South Carolina side of the

Savannah River between the main British force at Savannah and Campbell's Outpost at Augusta.

The British feared that the Americans might cross the river to cut off and isolate the smaller contingent at Augusta.

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