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As the war continued, the Red Coats expected some support from their fellow Loyalists in the South; especially from the farmers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. They wanted and needed this support but all they did was waste it. They kept making the same mistake using the same wrong war strategies; they still thought they were fighting a conventional War, instead of also supporting the Loyalist militia.

Bernardo de Galvez

In the south they won most of the battles, and they captured major sea ports in the South. In the late 1778 the British captured savannah, Georgia. During the spring 1780, they captured Charleston, South Carolina and at the same time they captured 5000 Patriot soldiers, that summer the British crushed another Patriot army in Camden, South Carolina. All these are major sea ports. Meanwhile in the Gulf of Mexico, Bernardo De Galvez attacked the British forts in the Gulf Coast region. In 1780 he attacked Mobil, Alabama, which was a British fort. In 1781, they took Pensacola, British West Florida. All this effective Spanish moves in the Gulf were making the British send troops to the Gulf to defend, but as they strengthened the Gulf they were weakening the troop in the East Coast .Even though their British had several victories in the South they didn’t control the countryside, a brutal, bloody civil war took place between the Patriots and the Loyalists, both sides killed civilians. In October 1780 at King Mountain, South Carolina, the Patriots crushed the Loyalist militia, they executed many of their prisoners, so they were not only losing people they were also losing territory, many neutrals and Loyalists were turning their backs on British and pairing with the Patriots, the Loyalists were blaming the British for not aiding them when needed. The British gained a lot of enemies in that area. Obviously General Charles Cornwallis was frustrated for all this conflicts and the fact that he was having a hard time achieving his goal of controlling the South. The Continental Army was small in the South but they had 2 great commanders: Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan. In 1781 they faced 2 huge losses to the British, one in Cowpen, South Carolina and Guildford Courthouse, North Carolina. After this General Charles Cornwallis decided to go north Virginia but he had no idea of what was about to happen…

King Mountain Battle