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This week episode 273, Fish Dam Ford and Blackstocks Farm.

Last week we left the British Army in South Carolina.

They had pulled out of North Carolina after a hostile reception there

and the defeated King's Mountain, and the British

spent most of the fall battling malaria and dealing with small parties of partisans, who continued

to harass them. I spent the last episode mostly recounting how

Colonel Francis Marion had been causing troubles for the British. This week I

wanted to mention Thomas Sumter's actions as well. While Colonel Marion had led smaller groups,

General Sumter had been able to raise larger armies to challenge British control

of the Carolinas. Sumter had managed to miss the Battle of King's Mountain because he was away

from his army meeting with South Carolina Governor John Rutledge to confirm that he had the right to

command. Days before Kings Mountain, Rutledge had given a

commission to a Virginia colonel named James Williams. It was the Williams Commission that forced Sumter to visit Rutledge to confirm Rutledge's right to command the Army.

Sumter did not actually have a formal commission, so Rutledge granted him one, but it meant Sumter was absent at King's Mountain, and as far

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