British government officials needed to defend the West Indies from the French, and take the opportunity to capture the tobacco and rice growing colonies of the south. ... King George III realized he could not allow the American colonies to gain independence or other territories of Great Britain would surely follow. ... Britain's Southern Strategy originally fell to the command of Sir Henry Clinton. ... While the American colonies and the French were a seemingly unlikely pair, the alliance between the two forced the British government to change their military strategy in the colonies to a ...

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The southern campaign initially went well for the British with Savannah and Charleston coming under their control by 1780. ... The main objective in the Southern Campaign was to pacify the colonies by using the loyalist and thereby causing minimal cost to the Crown. The British prosecution of the southern strategy shows that they did not have the endurance to endure a long, long-drawn-out pacification program. ... By 1780, four years of war had eroded the legitimacy of the British operations to restore rule over the colonies. ... In regards to the flawed Southern Campaign, the British disastro...

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From clothing to cannons to food, the colonies were wanting in supplies due to its past of submissive Mercantilism. Britain had disallowed factories in their colonies for more than a decade in fear of the competition such manufacturing institutions would create against themselves. The colonies provided the raw materials for British factories to create the finished products and spread throughout the world for their own profit. ... Cornwallis had sought to move to New York for relief when his supply line to southern ports grew too thin. ... The American Revolution developed into a world war, a d...

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The conflict, closely contested in multiple engagements throughout the colonies, was such that either side could have won. ... These men lost the colonies, that much is certain. ... The British Army was advancing through the southern colonies, having conquered Georgia and South Carolina. ... In 1775, Cornwallis volunteered for service in America, even though he objected to British policies in the colonies. ... He voted in opposition to the Declaratory Act, which affirmed as absolute Parliament's authority over the colonies. ...

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Because of the large slave population's relative immunity and the acquired immunity of the white colonists (the first infection of yellow fever either "kills you or makes you immune") yellow fever ceased to be a major concern to the colonies after several generations. ... Germain even barred Clinton from taking reinforcements from Cornwallis, stating that the southern colonies were the major priority. ...

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The Articles of Confederation was the first documentation of the beginning structure of the United States government, which held together the 13 colonies who had just fought in the Revolutionary War. ... The states could set their own tariffs on foreign imports, and they could set trade deals (Southern states with tobacco, etc.) with foreign nations. ...

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