S03E15: 1780: The Siege of Charleston, and the Southern Strategy

After five years of combat the British Empire was failing in

its North American colonies. After trying and failing to capture the rebel army

in the northeast, the Court of St. James proposed a dramatic new shift in the

size and scope of the war. Believing that the King still had a majority of

loyal support in the South, British forces sailed en masse for an invasion of

South Carolina and Georgia. After tremendous victories and Savannah and

Charleston, mistakes made by the empire would leave them second guessing their

new strategy. On this episode we discuss the year 1780 and the Southern

Strategy.