The British Invade the South

    As the war continues the British wanted the support of loyalist in the south. Specially the farmers of Georgia, North and South Carolina. The British wanted the support but they wasted the support because they kept the way they fight, they still don’t learn the lesson, they thought they were fighting a conventional battle. Instead of give the loyalist militia the support they continue fighting with the same strategies. In the south they get their victories and they captured the main sea ports as they did in north. in late 1778 they captured Savannah, Georgia. During spring in 1780 they captured Charleston, South Carolina and at the same time they captured 5000 Patriot soldiers. That summer the British crushed another Patriot army in 1780, they captured Camden. As the British started fighting in the South at the gulf, and Fernando de Galvez simultaneously made an attack at British forts in coast regions. In 1780 he attacked Mobil, Alabama, a British fort. in 1781 they took Pensacola in Florida thi8s was the capital of British west Florida. The Spanish are trying to strengthen their position in the gulf but at the same time the British send their troops from the east weakening the British army in North Carolina.