General Greene camped in my backyard here in North Carolina. Not my figurative "general area" back yard, my literal back yard. I have found many round balls, buttons, horse shoes, and buckles in my back garden and in the woods beyond. He camped here after the battle at Guilford Court House. Unfortunately my local historical society will not help me in preserving the site, nor any of my other known locations I, and my good friends, own across our county. I would love to see a video on the War of the Regulation here in North Carolina. Thank you for preserving this history. I am a born and raised Yankee, but history is history, and all deserves to be remembered, no matter the feelings associated. God Bless.

my ancestors fought in Kings Mountain and Cowpens for the Americans against the Loyalists and British

This is what they need to be teaching kids in school, so they know what a precious gift we have been given.

So many people do not know of or hardly know of the southern campaigns. Fascinating study and shows the true American resolve

this is awesome, you rarely hear about these battles

Thank you for posting this! Proud native South Carolinian, here. I work mere miles from Cowpens battlefield, used to camp with Scouts each October at Kings Mountain, and have spent much time at the Ninety-Six historical site. Though covering every conflict in Georgia and the Carolinas would be impossible for the time constraints, you certainly did a great job with the highlights.

Being from Eastern Massachusetts and growing up right in the location of the events of the 1760's and 1770's; it was easy for me to become seriously interested in all things colonial and Revolutionary. In fact, I joined the Framingham Co of Militia and Minute when a teenager and for a few years participated in re-enactments. I was aware of the Southern actions but had no clear picture of them. The last couple of years I have been reading about those battles and campaigns to fill in the blanks. More partisan conflicts then the North it seems. Great video. Check out the Osprey title "Patriot Militiamen in the Am. Rev, 75-82" Covers the Southern conflicts.

Great video. You missed the battle of Ramsour’s Mill in Lincoln County NC on June 20, 1780. 400 patriot militia attacked and dispersed about 1,300 loyalists in a surprise attack. Many of the men who fought this “unknown” battle went on to fight at King’s Mountain.

Sir Peter Parker 😂😂😂

My ancestor was the main commander at King’s Mountain. What a cool thing to learn about! I never had any idea, and neither did my family.

I have been a member of the American Battlefield Trust since its founding and the American Civil War Trust before that. Live in NE Ohio and had a four times gr. grandfather that fought with the Patriots for 6 years. Have visited Cowpens and King's Mtn. and other sites in New England. Thank you for the great job making the war more assessable to all.

One thing that seems to get lost is how Americans were fighting each other as well. I like how it was included that loyalists and patriots battled.

best channel ever

Very helpful. Thank you. So my great granddaddies 4th & 5th fought in the southern campaign. 5th, born in Ireland, remained loyal and fought with Cornwallis until Charleston was secured. His son, born in Camden 1755, was a Patriot. Patriot was captured at Brier Creek and taken prisoner to Savannah. We just tracked that this week on a trip to Savannah. It made it real.

Thank you for making and posting this informative view of the Revolutionary War in the South. The Southern campaign is neglected in the usual history of the war and that is ironic since the war was won in the South.

Nice! My ancestor fought under General Greene

My ancestors Jacob Daniel Scherer and Fredrich Scherer, father and son fought together for the patriot cause at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Their farm was 3 miles from the battlefield. Thank you for these amazing videos. If only this history was taught in our schools. We have so much to be thankful for.

Truly amazing

These are the BEST Videos, please make more.

It's amazing how much the Patriots got beat, but they continued to persist and fight. People also criticize George Washington as a mediocre commander, but he made all the right decisions, including sending Nathaniel Greene to the Carolinas

Morgan pulled the old double envelopment on Tarlton at Cowpens. Hannibal would have been proud.

"God himself can not remove me from this mountain!" *gets clapped* "oh hey God...about that last comment..."

Excellent video - well done!

Read Robert Graves' "Sergeant Lamb's America" and "Proceed Sergeant Lamb" two books based on the true memoirs of Roger Lamb, a British Army sergeant who served in the 9th and 23rd Regiments of the British Army. The most comprehensive story of the American Revolution by a British Army soldier from Dublin, Ireland. Roger Lamb wrote two memoirs of his life as well.

I just read about this campaign, great job summarizing it with visuals.

Amazing job covering the major battles of the war- would love to see these continuing to drill down on the specifics of the battles over time!

Heck ya, right in the middle of the w. Virginia & Kentucky “campaign “

I grew up in Norfolk, heard a few things about this battle , there is actually one building in downtown Norfolk ( pronounced Nawfulk) that has a cannon ball imbedded in building there.

Thanks for this! Great work

Excellent presentation!

Great content as usual.

Wow! Great video👍🏻

Awesome content. Cool to see all the historical stuff happen right in my back yard.

The war had become a world war with France, Spain and the Dutch fighting the British. Yorktown did not end the fighting but the center of operations shifted to places like the Caribbean sugar islands. King George opposed ending the war threatening to resign but war weariness and the threat to these islands run by slave labor and more valued than the colonies (which only received 5% of the slaves imported to the new world and which according to Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence the British prevented the colonies from banning slavery) forced the British to sign the peace treaty.

Fantastic!

I once read that General Nathaniel Greene “never won a battle, but never lost a campaign” and from what I’ve seen it’s a fitting description.

Excellent!

Unfortunately - many of our schools neglect to teach anything about the Southern Campaign...

Great video

Excelllent. Than you

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Ninety Six native here. This is a great documentary!

Didn't learn this in school. Glad I learned it now!

I love this channel and I love the Maps that y’all put on! I’m not sure if y’all take requests but I live in Monroe Michigan where the Battle of Frenchtown took place during the war of 1812 and I was wondering if y’all could make an animated map of the battle the took place where I live? The River Raisin Battlefield is one of my favorite places to go and I would love to learn more about the battle that took place 5 minutes(car) away from my house!

I'm decended from the Savage family that lived at The Old Savage Farm. the site of the Battle of Ninety-Six. Mj. Wm. Savage one of three brothers who were British Officers that lived there, where the Star Fort was built, is my ancestor.

A friend that I shared this with commented that he would like to see a video on the Gulf Coast Campaign. I had to admit I hadn't heard of it - The Spanish role in the Revolution.

I liked this video a lot more than the overall "Revolution" one. Only thing for this video, is I would have included more details about why Camden was such an embarrassing defeat, and why Morgan placed his troops in such an unprecedented manner. At Camden, the American commander, General Gates, did not fully understand European tactics, thus he put his weakest troops in front of the British strongest troops. They were immediately dispersed, and the American line fell apart. At Cowpens, Morgan realized that the militiamen were dealdly accurate shooters but they could not stand up to British Regulars. So he placed them in the first two lines with the distinct instructions "fire two shots, and then you can retreat." The idea was for them to take down as many of the British as possible before they reached the main American line. The tactic worked so well, that Greene used it again at Guilford Courthouse.

Sir Peter Parker was once heard remarking before battle, "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye."

Proud to be an American and PROUDER TO BE A SOUTHERN AMERICAN!!!

May 20 1775 , Mecklenburg NC declares independence from Great Britain. I learned this recently while researching my roots. My Scottish ancestors were there. I am so grateful for them.

Camden, Cowpens & Guilford CH are great parks.

02:19 Sir Peter Parker? U mean the tried to sic Spiderman on George Washington 😅

Watching this videos make me thing that an Strategy RPG based on the American Revolution could be an interesting game. I wonder why nobody ever done it?

Wonderfully attractive ! Thank you , American Battlefield Trust . Tom O'Brien Miami Fl.

2:19 No, not Spider-Man that's a different Peter Parker. Oops, I just gave away his secret identity, sorry Spidey. 7:43 Famous last words (even if they weren't his last words ironic that he said them pretty much right before he died). 11:46 Whenever both ides claim victory that means its a draw.

Sir Peter Parker *when Spider-Man becomes a British General*

2:18 I knew Spider-Man was real!

Barbary Wars and The Battle of New Orleans with Andrew Jackson are huge parts of our freedom and would make great videos

Outstanding! But at 7:24 was Ferguson's army really unsuspecting?

What happened to the enlisted Bristh POW's between Yorktown and the treaty? Where they paroled or held? Or exchanged right away?

With the holidays coming up can we do a video on the battle of Trenton, the forgotten second battle of Trenton and the importance of new jersey to the revolution?

Ferguson: "God himself will not remove me from this mount....." *shot lands on him* Patriot: "You're right, God ISN'T removing you from the mountain, I am"

i live in anderson sc and been to half the counties never knew they were battle grounds

Well, let me clarify few things. There is an article from The Massachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution ( SAR ) called ‘Spain and the Independence of The United States.’ After reading the article cannot be a surprise to know than Spanish Commander Bernardo de Galvez has the same honour of be Honorary Citizeship of the United States like Laffayete…

As is usual the most significant strategic event in the American south was left out. General Galvez under direction from Washington put to gether a large army and moved from Texas to New Orleans and across the Florida panhandle and up into Georgia threatening Savannah. This held the British in the South in check so they could not help Cornwallis. This "hispanic" force was as most likely the largest army on North American when the Cornwallis surrendered.

Read Ferguson's entire letter. He was reacting to the many murders of innocent people at the hands of Whig militia. He spells it out very clearly, but historians have continuously ignored the parts that illustrate the brutality of the Whigs. Waxhaws was not a massacre. Buford had his men hold their fire until the charging dragoons were less than 10 yards from them. He screwed up. As his men were surrendering, some of them picked weapons back up and began fighting again, under white flags. Tarleton was pinned under his horse by a militiaman who surrendered then started fighting again. There are multiple accounts of this - but we continually ignore those parts....

2:19 Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that someone named "Sir Peter Parker" once existed?

Cornwallis did not back hin into the corner. He could not even think of the posibility that the engish fleet losing

Just saying but I know that I am going to love this video and the reason is you see I play the base drum in a pipe and drum band that is named after the famous famous brave and mighty and heroic and glorious and fantastic and fierce and stunning and stupendous and legendary and honorable and honored black watch which is a British Canadian and Scottish infantry regiment and its currently the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland and you see before it was known as the black watch it was known as the 42nd regiment of foot and during the southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War it took place at the siege of Charleston and Just saying but I would love to see an animated map of the northern campaign because that campaign included some well known battles including the great British victories at brandywine and Germantown and the big battle of Long Island and it also included the great patriot victory’s like Lexington and concord Saratoga and Monmouth The capture of fort Ticonderoga the famous sneak attack on Trenton the battle of Princeton Springfield and it also included the bloody British victory at bunker hill and just saying but I would love to see an animated map of the western campaign of the American revolutionary wars because even though it wasn’t as famous as the southern and northern campaigns the western campaigns brought famous people out west like Daniel Boone and the brother of the famous William Clark named George Rogers Clark and it also brought the Spanish into the war but more specifically Bernardo de Galvez Viscount of Galveston count of Galves in which he fought the British army for control of British west Florida defeating the British at Pensacola and mobile

We fight, get beat, and rise to fight again. Yeah kinda sounds like us southern boys lol. Also sounds like that whole "the south will rise again" thing

Sir peter parker was spiderman of that era.

Before corona I would take a niece to see a Shakespeare play twice a year. One time talking to the couple sitting behind us the subject of Julius Ceaser came up. I asked what happened on the ides of March? To their obvious answer I said no! The battle of guilford courthouse 1781.

Ha that’s interesting.😊

there are too few if any documentaries on the american revolution from the british perspective.

I'm a notherndr, we named our schools after Nathaniel Greene

Watching this in history class, don’t know what’s going on

Peter Parker was a British patriot?! Peter Parker could fit in a dust pan?!

Proud to be an American

Greene is the reverse Hannibal.

Not even a single mention of Francis marion is a travesty

Please take care of my southern recruits.

I was waiting for them to mention the name “benjamin martin” on how he led the militia 😂.

My paternal ancestors were loyalists.

Takes Billy Yank!

Don't know about you but I'm proud to be an American God Bless 🙏 this country.

… And apparently they’re still shooting at me, a day later

Its never too late to return to the fold of the crown😅

In discussing about Southern State what need be mentioned is how Spain indirectly assistance via blocking British from using what now called State of Florida.Yet history book don’t mention this in history books.

The 33 British troops return to charleston..

The patriots were chasing me all over New England yesterday

7:58 you know who was the evil

So not a lot has changed in some senses; cities and coastal communities still believe in independence and freedom and progressive ideas while the backwood and rural folk still believe in just sticking with the old outdated ideas and old outdated ways.

Why Spain Crown is always forgotten? Yorktown battle was payed with Spanish silver. Along the hole war, Spain provided gunpowder, quinine, uniforms, blankets, guns and bayonets, canyons, ammunition, a way to the sea in New Orleans... and Bernardo de Gálvez. With an army of Spanish from the present Mexico and Cuba most of them, invaded british territory in America. British troops that had to combat in Florida and the Mississipi and they lost. Spain also sent its ships and payed the French ships to block the British supplies (France always has the merit, but Spain payed all the French ships and all the supplies). And not important for USA but very important for Spain. Spain was preparing a definitve assault to Gibraltar, illegally occupied by GB, but decided to help the American rebels. British had to choose between Gibraltar or the 13 colonies. And they decided to protect more Gibraltar, because they would retain Canada, enough for them. In "compensation", Spain never has been mentioned and even treated as evil (just have a look into school books of History and see the drawings of wonderful british settlers, good friends of indians and the horrible bloodthisty Spaniards). Florida was taken with the menace of "silver or plumb" (yes, Pablo Escobar was not so original). Spain sold Florida but never was payed. And denigration campaigns continued on newspapers and lectures (Hearst said: "I will put the war". And he did it). An excuse to invade Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philipines and try to destroy the Spanish culture there. And here we are.

They put a golf course on the stono ferry battle field, gotta love it.

Loyalist is DEMS today & PATRIOT today is Independents & Non RINOS - JUST FYI

Another fine example of guerilla warfare.

God Bless the USA🙏🏻

Great maps, but I won't be watching any of these videos because I don't like all the inter-cut scenes of re-enactors running around with uniforms on, pretending they're wounded or whatever . It's just a boring distraction. For viewers of this kind of content the priority should be more on listening anyway.

Will you be covering the pending civil war???😂😂😂