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This week episode 261, the raid on Augusta. In the last couple of episodes I've covered the loss of a second

Southern American Army, this time at Camden, where General Cornwallis easily crushed a larger force under General Horatio Gates.

Following that loss, British forces focused on the last few Patriot militia armies that were still causing trouble in South Carolina,

pushing most of them further west into or beyond the mountains.

This decisive British victory seemed to secure South Carolina for British rule, making it the second

colony after Georgia to return to Crown Authority by the fall of 1780. A British control, however, always seemed to prove far more

fluid than officials would have liked. Recall that the British had captured Georgia in late 1778 when a relatively small force captured the town of

Savannah.

The British attempted to secure the entire colony by setting up an outpost in Augusta, but quickly determined that a force that far inland

only made itself a tempting target for Patriot militia attacks.

British control over Georgia by the spring of 1779 was essentially limited to the greater

Savannah area.

Augusta was a frontier village well inland and farther up the Savannah River from the town of Savannah.

It was one of the original five towns that had been established in the 1730s by James

Oglethorpe when he first organized the Georgia colony. He named the town after the

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