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American Revolution Podcast

ARP256 Hanging Rock

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Over the summer of 1780, the British control of South Carolina is challenged by militia led by Elijah Clarke and Thomas Sumter. Britain also loses an important supply fleet to Spain. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: From Savannah to Yorktown: the American Revolution in the South, by Henry Lumpkin (or borrow on archive.org).  Online Recommendation of the Week: The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina, from a British province to an independent state, Vol. 2, By David Ramsey: https://archive.org/details/historyofrevolut02rams Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy  ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week episode 256 The Battle of Hanging Rock. Last time we went over several skirmishes in both North and South Carolina,

0:59.6

the British under General Cornwallis claimed to have taken all of South Carolina and had

1:05.5

demanded that all colonists even Patriot militia who had been released on parole

1:10.1

joined the loyalist militia forces or be treated as traders.

1:15.0

Cornwallis had deployed Major Patrick Ferguson to the backcountry

1:19.0

where he was tasked with organizing regiments of Patriot Militia.

1:24.0

Ferguson used Fort 96 as his base of operations and as a POW camp for Patriots who refused to cooperate. Further to the north, Colonel Bannister Tarleton used his loyalist cavalry,

1:37.3

mostly raised among loyalists from New York and Philadelphia

1:40.9

to compel obedience to British edicts and punish anyone who refused to comply.

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Also, a few episodes back, I gave some background on two local leaders who emerged at this time.

1:54.0

Colonel Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, was a Continental officer who was not in Charleston

2:00.0

when it fell to the British.

2:02.1

General Thomas Sumter, the Gamecock, had given up participation in the

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