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| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - January 07 2009 : 12:14:35 PM
http://www.state.de.us/facts/ushist/revfacts.htm |
| 7 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 16 2009 : 11:45:57 AM
The highland Scots rose up to support Cornwallis and Parker''s landing at Wilmington, NC. 1600 of them met the forces of Lillington and Caswell at Moore's Creek Bridge and were soundly defeated. After that they were deported. |
| Longrifle |
Posted - January 16 2009 : 02:13:52 AM
I can't speak to everything listed in the link, but I'll comment on a couple of things:
"Benedict Arnold was the best general in the Continental Army!"
I don't know about his ability as a strategist, but I'll go out on a limb and assert that Daniel Morgan was the best tactical leader of the American Revolution; similar to Robert Rogers in the French and Indian War. George Rogers Clark was no slouch as a tactical leader either.
"By 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington!"
Funny (odd, ironic) thing: at Kings Mountian the southern patriots were mostly of Scotch-Irish ("Scotch-Arsh") descent and the southern loyalists were mostly of Highland Scots descent.
The southern patriots were descendants of Lowland Scots who settled for about a century in Ulster, Ireland, and later came to the Appalachians (all the good lands along the coast and piedmont were already taken, so they moved inland). The southern loyalists were descendants of Highland Scots who settled in eastern North Carolina. So, in North Carolina descendants of the Lowlanders settled in the mountains and descendents of the Highlanders settled in the swamps. Go figure.
And, to the consternation of modern Scots/Scottish people, the descendants of the Ulster Plantation have long referred to themselves as "Scotch," not Scots or Scottish. Well, they started making "likker" out of corn almost as soon as they arrived so they didn't need to reserve the term "Scotch" for whiskey, now did they? |
| Bookworm |
Posted - January 10 2009 : 4:10:37 PM
My paternal great-grandmother's maiden name was Arnold. Never been sure how to feel about that. |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 07 2009 : 6:38:39 PM
And there was also an army in SC fighting the British who were in Savannah. |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - January 07 2009 : 6:08:41 PM
It is definitely true that there were times when Washington's army was very small, due to desertions, terms of service expiring, etc. The numbers of men on active duty fluctuated a great deal as men left and went home and others joined up.
However, I am perplexed by the statement that Washington reported in 1779 that he had a field army of 3,468. Because during the summer of that year, he sent 2 armies with Generals Sullivan and Clinton into the Wilderness of New York, on what became known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition Against the Iroquois. Those armies totaled about 5,000 men. They were gone for months, beginning in the spring. I'm thinking that Washington must have been counting the number of men he kept with him. So, that would have been a total of over 8,000 men who were actively serving in 1779.
Also, I am quite surprised that Mr. Fleming did not mention the women who disguised themselves as men and literally fought as soldiers. Deborah Sampson. Also, there were women who served as spies and informers. This one was only 16! Sybil Ludington |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - January 07 2009 : 5:46:10 PM
Yup, - the size of armies certainly has changed, unfortunately. Two things surprised me, - how well many colonists were doing financially - and the number of French v Americans were involved. That's the first time I have heard about Sarah being in a straight-jacket. |
| Obediah |
Posted - January 07 2009 : 5:13:40 PM
Cool page...surprisingly (to me), I knew most of that stuff.
A few random thoughts...
Man, those RevWar armies sure were small!!
Good old Patrick Henry and his "Give me liberty or give me death!" Let's see, how many slaves did he own?
And let's not forget Sarah Henry, Patrick's "wife and the mother of his then 6 children had just recently died. She had suffered from a long and lingering disease* and before her death had been confined to a 18th century equivalent of a strait jacket. She was locked in two rooms in the cold basement, accessible only by a secret stair case." *Some sort of mental illness, possibly.
Nice guys, those aristocratic Virginia planters... |
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