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American Revolution Podcast

ARP302 Cloud's Creek Massacre

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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General Alexander Leslie takes Command in Charleston. William "Bloody Bill" Cunningham goes on a rampage across South Carolina. General Nathanael Greene tightens the noose around Charleston. 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: Loyalism in South Carolina 1764-1785, by Robert. W. Barnwell. Online Recommendation of the Week: "William ‘Bloody Bill’ Cunningham and the Bloody Scout” Journal of the American Revolution, July 8, 2021: https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/07/william-blood-bill-cunningham-and-the-bloody-scout 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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This week episode 302, Clouds Creek Massacre.

0:53.8

Last week we covered some of the violence between Patriot and Loyalist militias in North Carolina

0:59.4

as the last British soldiers evacuated that state. This week we're going to turn to South Carolina.

1:06.0

Now around the time of Yorktown, General Clinton sent General Alexander Leslie to take

1:11.3

command of the British Army at Charleston.

1:14.1

The 50-year-old general came from an old Scottish family.

1:17.6

He was actually named after his ancestor, who was famous for being a leading officer in the English Civil War. General Leslie had served in America

1:26.4

for 14 years and was already serving in Boston when the war began. Like many, he was sick of the war by 1781 and had made multiple requests to

1:36.4

General Clinton to return home to Britain. Leslie had served in the Carolinas

1:41.0

under General Cornwallis.

1:43.0

Clinton had ordered him to go to Virginia in 1780,

1:47.0

but only after a few weeks there, Cornwallis ordered him

1:50.4

to bring his forces down to Charleston. This was shortly after Cornwallis had lost his

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