Partisans Play a Part
Sep 01, 2021
2 minutes
by Karen Bradley Cain
British military strategists had expected the South to be its key to victory in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). But the British plan to rely on homegrown military men backfired. When Loyalists took up arms against patriots, it triggered waves of violence. A bloody civil war erupted. People in the same towns and sometimes
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