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In a world rife with conflict and tension, how does a great power prosecute an irregular war at a great distance within the context of a regional struggle, all within a global competitive environment? The question, so pertinent today, was confronted by the British nearly 250 years ago during the American War for Independence. And the answer, as this book makes plain, is not the way the British, under Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis, went about it in the American South in the years 1778–81. Southern Gambit presents a closely observed, comprehensive account of this failed strategy. Approaching the campaign from the British perspective, this book restores a critical but little-studied chapter to the narrative of the Revolutionary War—and in doing so, it adds detail and depth to our picture of Cornwallis, an outsize figure in the history of the British Empire.
Distinguished scholar of military strategy Stanley D. M. Carpenter outlines the British strategic and operational objectives, devoting particular attention to the strategy of employing Southern Loyalists to help defeat Patriot forces, reestablish royal authority, and tamp down resurgent Patriot activity. Focusing on Cornwallis’s operations in the Carolinas and Virginia leading to the surrender at Yorktown in October 1781, Carpenter reveals the flaws in this approach, most notably a fatal misunderstanding of the nature of the war in the South and of the Loyalists’ support. Compounding this was the strategic incoherence of seeking a conventional war against a brilliant, unconventional opponent, and doing so amidst a breakdown in the unity of command.
Ultimately, strategic incoherence, ineffective command and control, and a misreading of the situation contributed to the series of cascading failures of the British effort. Carpenter’s analysis of how and why this happened expands our understanding of British decision-making and operations in the Southern Campaign and their fateful consequences in the War for Independence.
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"The British Southern Strategy that culminated in the surrender at Yorktown in 1781 has been the subject of any number of histories. The distinction of this book, authored by a serving instructor at the U.S. Naval War College, is that it applies the lessons of the ongoing U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to the British attempt to end the insurrection in the thirteen colonies via a Southern approach. Author Stanley Carpenter offers a spirited narrative of the campaign, but the real takeaway is his modern analysis of British failures of strategy and execution.
It is no small irony that Lord Cornwallis, the senior British commander in the South after the siege of Savannah, was consistently a battlefield winner until his last fight. It is perhaps the point of the narrative that Cornwallis, an aggressive and tactically savvy field general, was overly focused on winning on the battlefield, vice supporting and protecting the Loyalists in the South who may have represented Britain's best chance of prevailing over the rebels. The reader willing to persist through the author's sometimes repetitive style will come away with a better understanding of why the Revolutionary War ended the way it did. Well recommended to the student of the conflict and the general reader."
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Southern Gambit Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown Campaigns and Commanders Series Stanley D M Carpenter PhD 9780806161853 Books Reviews :
Southern Gambit Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown Campaigns and Commanders Series Stanley D M Carpenter PhD 9780806161853 Books Reviews
- The British Southern Strategy that culminated in the surrender at Yorktown in 1781 has been the subject of any number of histories. The distinction of this book, authored by a serving instructor at the U.S. Naval War College, is that it applies the lessons of the ongoing U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to the British attempt to end the insurrection in the thirteen colonies via a Southern approach. Author Stanley Carpenter offers a spirited narrative of the campaign, but the real takeaway is his modern analysis of British failures of strategy and execution.
It is no small irony that Lord Cornwallis, the senior British commander in the South after the siege of Savannah, was consistently a battlefield winner until his last fight. It is perhaps the point of the narrative that Cornwallis, an aggressive and tactically savvy field general, was overly focused on winning on the battlefield, vice supporting and protecting the Loyalists in the South who may have represented Britain's best chance of prevailing over the rebels. The reader willing to persist through the author's sometimes repetitive style will come away with a better understanding of why the Revolutionary War ended the way it did. Well recommended to the student of the conflict and the general reader.
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