Can I read The Georgia-Florida contest in the American Revolution, 1776, 1777, and 1778 on EtoBox?

The Georgia-Florida contest in the American Revolution, 1776, 1777, and 1778 by Martha Condray Searcy is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Georgia-Florida contest in the American Revolution, 1776, 1777, and 1778 about?

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Almost from the time of Georgias settlement by Oglethorpe in 1733, both Georgians and Carolinians had made periodic unsuccessful attempts to conquer the Spanish Castillo San Marcos in St. Augustine; and during the American Revolution (in 1776, 1777, and 1778) the rebels tried without success to take the fortification, which was then a British stronghold. Each of the three expeditions was less successful than the preceding one, and between the formal campaigns vicious partisan warfare between loyalists and rebels devastated much of the area between the Altamaha and St. Johns rivers. This book presents a detailed history of the three Georgia-Florida campaigns. Indecisive and lacking the glamour of either the contemporary campaigns in the North, or the later campaigns in the South, they appeared isolated from the mainstream of the revolutionary struggle. The rebels were handicapped by divided command, personal quarrels, difficult terrain, and miserable weather. While Searcy emphasizes the military aspects of the period, she also treats the conflict between civil and military authorities, the effects of war on the civilian populace, and

Author

Martha Condray Searcy

Publisher

University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817302252

Subjects

History, Humanities