Artfuldodger
Senior Member
Reading about the siege of Augusta, it occurred to me how much it was like the Civil War in the fact that men from the same country were fighting each other.
I think all the troops at Fort Cornwallis in Augusta were Loyalist. In a way it was Patriots against the Loyalist. In that battle, maybe more battles at the start of the war.
Often lost in a study of the Revolution are the "horrors of civil war" among Americans themselves—among supporters of independence (Patriots/Whigs), opponents (Loyalists/Tories), and the ambivalent Americans who were angry with Britain but opposed to declaring independence.
I think all the troops at Fort Cornwallis in Augusta were Loyalist. In a way it was Patriots against the Loyalist. In that battle, maybe more battles at the start of the war.
Often lost in a study of the Revolution are the "horrors of civil war" among Americans themselves—among supporters of independence (Patriots/Whigs), opponents (Loyalists/Tories), and the ambivalent Americans who were angry with Britain but opposed to declaring independence.