Main Ideas
-Patriot Forces faced many problems in the war in the south, War was not going well for the British in the North, so they set their sights on south, hoped to find support from a large loyalist population in Georgia the Carolina's and Virgina, planned to free slaves and gives them arms
-The American Patriots finally defeated the British at the Battle of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis moved British forces to Yorktown Virginia in 1781, Washington's Continental Army and French troops under Comte de Rochambeau surrounded the British
-The British and the Americans officially ended the war by signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783, After Yorktown there were only a few small battles. The British lacked money to pay for a new army so they entered into peace talks with the Patriots.
Brutal Fighting
-Patriots fought the Loyalists in direct combat in South
-Georgia fell to British in 1778; Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1780
-Americans attacked British in August 1780, but failed to drive them out of South Carolina and suffered many casualties
-Francis Marion was more successful using Guerrilla Warfare against British using surprise attacks to disrupt communication and supply lines
