LEGENDS of the SOUTHERN CAMPAIGNS
"We fight, get beat, rise and fight again."

A native of Poland, COUNT CASIMIR PULASKI, volunteered his services in 1777 and served with distinction at Brandywine and other northern battles. He was mortally wounded during the Siege of Savannah, 1779.

The Revolution in the South resembled a civil war, filled with bloody retaliations fought between American Patriots and American Loyalists. At King's Mountain, for example, militiamen plus several hundred "over mountain men" from Tennessee nearly massacred a 1,000-man Loyalist force.

By August 1780, NATHANIEL GREENE replaced Horatio Gates as commander of the Southern Army, and masterfully rallied both militia forces and guerrilla fighters. A Quaker from Rhode Island, he had served admirably at Trenton, Brandywine, Valley Forge and Monmouth before taking command in the South.

FRANCIS MARION became a brilliant guerrilla leader known as the "Swamp Fox" who used decoy and ambush to disrupt enemy communications, capture supplies, and free prisoners. (A compilation of several Southern guerrilla fighters became the lead character played by actor Mel Gibson in the movie, "The Patriot.")

BANASTRE TARLETON, the highly skilled leader of a 550-man British cavalry Force, was called "The Butcher" after becoming infamous for his ruthless slaughter of Americans (also portrayed in the movie, "The Patriot"). But he met his match in early 1781 at a wooded pasture called Cowpens, where he was forced to run from DANIEL MORGAN'S sharpshooters (hero of Quebec, Sarasota, and other northern battles). It was a stunning victory for Americans! The British soon left the Carolinas to invade Virginia.