ARP292 Dog Days Campaign

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In late summer 1781, General Greene rests his Continentals after hard months of fighting. General Thomas Sumter, aided by Colonels Francis Marion and Light Horse Harry Lee, attack the British at Quinby's Bridge and Shubrick's Plantation. Marion goes on to another attack near Parker's Ferry. Meanwhile, General Greene advances efforts to reestablish the patriot government in Georgia. 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: The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution, by John Buchanan Online Recommendation of the Week: Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, by Henry Lee: https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwarinso00leehe Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com 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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0:47.0	This week episode 292, the Dog Days campaign.
0:51.0	We last left the War in the Carolinas back in episode 287. General
0:56.7	Nathaniel Green, along with support from militia leaders Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion,
1:02.4	had forced the British out of pretty much all of South Carolina except a small area around Charleston.
1:08.0	Grain and his continentals were exhausted by this time.
1:12.0	They had been on the move almost continuously
1:14.9	since March of 1781. By July the summer heat was becoming oppressive. With the British
1:22.3	bottled up in Charleston, Green gave his men a rest in the high hills of Santee.
1:28.1	The weather there was a little more bearable and the local fields provided a food source for the Army.
1:34.5	As the Continental's recuperated, militia General Thomas Sumter continued in the field
1:40.3	in what would later be called the Dog Days campaign, taking place during the dog days of summer.
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