Colonel Banastre Tarleton slaughters a group of escaping Continentals at Waxhaw. General Clinton's edict that all colonists must join loyalist militias convinces many paroled men to rally to patriot units commanded by leaders such as Thomas Sumter and Francis Marion. Patriots attack and massacre a loyalist regiment commanded by Christian Huck.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution, by John Oller (borrow on archive.org).
Online Recommendation of the Week: Weems, Mason L. Life of Gen'l Francis Marion, (originally published 1809): https://archive.org/details/lifeofgenlfranci00weem 
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Desperate actions by militia in 1782 regarding the murder of prisoners forces Washington to make a controversial decision.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Charles Asgill Affair: Setting the Record Straight, by Anne Ammundsen.
Online Recommendation of the Week: History of Chatham, New Jersey: https://archive.org/details/historyofchatham00vand
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ARP312 Huddy-Asgill Affair

The French recapture St. Eustatius in late 1781, just as the French fleet under Admiral De Grasse returns from Yorktown. With the arrival of the fleet, the French also capture St. Kitts. Admiral Rodney and Admiral Hood join together to defeat the French fleet at the battle of the Saintes. Just as that battle is coming to an end, the Spanish, using American privateers capture the Bahamas.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Rodney and the Breaking of the Line, by Peter Trew.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney, Vol. 2, edited by Godfrey Mundy: https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden02munduoft
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ARP311 Battle of the Saintes

In March 1782, American militia destroy a Moravian Christian community of white settlers and Indians living in Ohio.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians, by Earl Olmstead (borrow on Archive.org). 
Online Recommendation of the Week: Zeisberger, David Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio, Vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdavidzeis01zeis_0 and Vol 2: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdavidzeis02zeis_0
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ARP310 Gnadenhutten Massacre

After news of Yorktown reaches London, Lord North's government falls. As new opposition government lead by Lord Rockingham forms despite the King's opposition. The new government focuses on recognizing American Independence and ending the war.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Lord North, by W. Barring Pemberton (borrow on Archive.org).  
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, Vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/correspondencek01nortgoog
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ARP309 North Government Falls

British General Henry Clinton finds himself under increasing pressure from his own officers to resign command. General Washington approves an attempt to kidnap King George III's son in New York. Continental General Alexander McDougall faces a court martial.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Revolutionary: A Biography of General Alexander McDougall, by William MacDougall.
Online Recommendation of the Week: “General Orders, 28 August 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives [findings of court martial], https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-09275
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