An account of the Revolutionary War by a Historical Professor friend of mine, Professor JH....
The true story of how America won the Revolutionary War.
Back in 1775 the Colonies up Nawth who, in those days, believe it or not, actually liked guns and detested taxes, got fed up and started a war with the mightiest empire in history. Yep, hotheaded Yankees started a war they had no real hope of winning.
For the next four years Washington managed to win an occasional battle here and there and did a fine job of running the Redcoats ragged by making them chase him all over the Nawth.
By the time Cornwallis took command he’d figured out that a new plan was needed. His plan was to invade the South. Yeah, I know. What the hell was he thinking? I’m guessing he’d never actually been down South before.
So, in late 1779 the British took the war to Dixie. They had a little success at first too. Charleston and Savannah both fell.
Then gun loving Southern Good Ole Boys took the invasion of the South personally and began to pour out of the mountains, hills, woods and swamps with an attitude and things got serious in a heartbeat.
It took them a while, but after two years of using every trick in the book, dirty or otherwise, Nathaniel Greene and the Southern Good Ole Boys kicked Cornwallis’s ass all the way from the Savannah River to Yorktown. Then, with a little marginal help from
the French Fleet, General Greene and the Good Ole Boys kept Cornwallis bottled up at Yorktown for about three weeks to give Washington time to show up and accept the Surrender.
Washington did deserve at least some of the credit for sending us a smart Yankee, General Greene, who figured out how to put pissed off Rednecks to good use.
The Nathaniel Greene Monument and tomb in Savannah’s Johnson Square. Lafayette laid the cornerstone.
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