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This week episode 262, The Raid on Peekaway.

In our last episode, the British in Georgia and South Carolina forced what was left of any

organized resistance into the Western mountains. Leaders, including Elijah Clark, Francis Marion, and Thomas

Sumter all had to escape from British and loyalist forces under the overall command of General

Charles Cornwallis.

Now Cornwallis's main focus in late 1780 was insecure in the more heavily settled eastern parts of the southern colonies

and then moving north to secure North Carolina and hopefully

eventually Virginia.

With a limited number of men, his main focus kept him looking forward. As I discussed last time, Cornwallis devoted almost none of his resources to securing the lands in Georgia and South Carolina that he already considered Gretaken.

Major Patrick Ferguson had the responsibility to raise new provincial regiments from within the conquered colonies,

mostly with the support of other provincial regiments that had been sent south from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Raising new regiments and pacifying the colonies had proven, well, disappointing for the British.

But as the summer of 1780 war on, the British position seemed to improve, especially

following the destruction of the Continental Army at Camden.

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