After the battle at Monmouth in June 1778, most attention turns to the south as Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-chief, sends troops to South Carolina in late 1779 to implement the new British strategy of taking the south and then moving northward to conquer the middle colonies. Little attention is paid to the time after Monmouth and the Franco-American combined land and sea operations against the British in Yorktown. In the fall of 1778, the Franco-American attack on British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island, failed to materialize, bring campaigning to an end for the year. Washington...
After the battle at Monmouth in June 1778, most attention turns to the south as Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-chief, sends troops to South C...
