Independence - Two Volleys

American Political History · Jul 4, 2025 · 31m

After Charleston and Camden, the Continental Army in the South was a wreck — and George Washington sent it a limping Rhode Island foundryman named Nathanael Greene, who promptly did the one thing every rule of war forbids: with a stronger enemy in front of him, he divided his army. This is the story of how the Americans finally learned to beat the British in the South by refusing to fight them the British way. It is the story of Daniel Morgan, the scarred old wagoner who turned the militia everyone had written off into the trap that destroyed Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens — three lines, two…