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The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780

The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780

Hardcover

Regional: SouthRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $45.99

ISBN10: 154020359X
ISBN13: 9781540203595
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.77
Height: 0.81 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson s plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson s Plantation, or Huck s Defeat as it later came to be known, laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army, and it paved the way for the calamitous defeats that the British suffered at Hanging Rock, Musgrove s Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock s Plantation and Cowpens, all in the South Carolina backcountry.

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