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EDS, change is in our power. You're going to. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution. This week episode 296, the Battle of Utah Springs. We last left General Nathaniel Green and the

Southern Continental Army back in episode 287 when the Patriots forced the

British to give up most of their outpost in South Carolina,

including the large base at Fort 96. By this point, Greens Continental's were exhausted.

They'd been on the March for months. The summer heat and the

spreading malaria finally convinced Green to give his men a rest. In mid-July 1781, Green set up camp in the high hills of the Santee, where the heat was a bit less oppressive and the

mosquitoes a bit less unbearable.

As the Continental's recovered, the South Carolina State soldiers in militia

continued to harass smaller British deployments and supply lines. Then, after the Dog Day's campaign, which I covered in episode 292, South Carolina General

Thomas Sumter released most of the state soldiers and himself left for his plantation in North Carolina.

This left the only significant force still in the field,

a relatively small group of a militia under Colonel Francis Marion.

General Green wasn't sure of his next steps.

With Sumter's state troops mostly gone home,

the Continental soldiers under his command felt abandoned and not particularly motivated to defend a state where the locals seemed to be taking a break.

One possible course of action was to march as Continental's back to North Carolina and take the loyalist

stronghold at Wilmington. Green was still concerned that the larger British Army under General

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