The American Revolution: The Second Phase

So begins the Southern Campaign.

Becuase of the stalemate in the north, in 1780 Cornwallis invaded the south. He took Charleston and then whipped Horatio Gates at Camden.

While General Washington remained with the main army in New Jersey, he dispatched his best general and trouble shooter extraordinaire, Nathanael Greene, down south.

Greene rallied what was left of the army and led Cornwallis on a chase up to Virginia and then back down to the Carolina's.

Meanwhile the Over the Mountain Men (early Tennesseans)  utterly destroyed Patrick Ferguson's Tory militia at King's Mountain.

Greene's army and local Patriot militias gradually rolled up Tory and Redcoat posts in the Carolinas.

In 1781 Greene and Cornwallis clashed in the second biggest battle of the war, Guilford Courthouse and while Cornwallis won the battle he was so battered he chose to retreat to the coast to be replenished by the fleet at Yorktown.