Summary of John Oller's The Swamp Fox

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The South was the key theater of operations in the American Revolution. It was also a society riven by war and rooted in lawlessness, fear, violence, and oppression. The British plan was to occupy and pacify Georgia, and then subdue South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
#2 The British plan was working in South Carolina. The city fell easily in December 1778, and the British quickly established control over Georgia. Savannah provided Clinton with a base for moving north by land on Charleston, which he had failed to capture in a brief, bungled land-and-sea operation in 1776.
#3 The war in South Carolina was extremely personal, and involved not just a clash of professional armies, but also an insurgency and counterinsurgency that engaged the civilian population.
#4 The American Revolution was not primarily based on political differences, but on private grievances and desires for revenge. It was driven by blood feuds that had been generated between neighbors in the prerevolutionary period.

Sujets

• Historical
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544512
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on John Oller's The Swamp Fox
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The South was the key theater of operations in the American Revolution. It was also a society riven by war and rooted in lawlessness, fear, violence, and oppression. The British plan was to occupy and pacify Georgia, and then subdue South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

#2

The British plan was working in South Carolina. The city fell easily in December 1778, and the British quickly established control over Georgia. Savannah provided Clinton with a base for moving north by land on Charleston, which he had failed to capture in a brief, bungled land-and-sea operation in 1776.

#3

The war in South Carolina was extremely personal, and involved not just a clash of professional armies, but also an insurgency and counterinsurgency that engaged the civilian population.

#4

The American Revolution was not primarily based on political differences, but on private grievances and desires for revenge. It was driven by blood feuds that had been generated between neighbors in the prerevolutionary period.

#5

Marion was a man of moderation who was not a Charleston aristocrat nor a backcountry bumpcoon. He was ruthless in battle, but he was averse to the shedding of needless blood, whether that of friend or foe.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Huguenots, a group of French Protestants who had been persecuted for their beliefs, were given land in Carolina by the Lords Proprietor. Benjamin Marion, one of the Huguenots, emigrated in 1690 with his wife and five servants. He became a naturalized citizen and taxpayer, and acquired enough land so that his sons could start their own estates.

#2

Francis Marion was born in 1732, the same year as George Washington. He was born at Goatfield Plantation, on the western branch of the Cooper River, about fourteen miles northeast of Goose Creek in present-day Berkeley County.

#3

Marion’s father had moved the family to Georgetown, a newly founded port town on the coast. His father died when he was in his teens, and he spent the next several years in Georgetown living with family and immersing himself in the town’s English culture.

#4

Francis Marion, a farmer, was listed on the muster roll of the St. John’s militia company in 1756. He began producing profitable crops at Hampton Hill shortly after his mother died. He was a man of steady habits, but his life was interrupted twice during this period: first by a brutal Indian war and then by the approaching fury of revolution.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

In 1759, the British governor of South Carolina, William Lyttelton, marched against the Cherokee Indians, who were loyal allies of France, and demanded that they surrender twenty-four other Indians as compensation for the same number of whites they allegedly had killed. The Cherokees refused and prepared to fight.

#2

The third British expedition against the Cherokee settlements was led by Lieutenant Colonel James Grant. It was a much larger force than the previous two, and it was accompanied by fifty-seven Mohawk, Catawba, Stockbridge, and Chickasaw Indians as well as eighty-one slaves.

#3

In June 1761, Grant marched his army into Cherokee territory. The Cherokees were forced to sue for peace. Marion was one of the officers chosen to lead a detachment of thirty men on a suicidal advance through the pass.