The War's End & Lasting Effect

As war continued, the British wanted loyalists support in the South, specially the farmers of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The British wanted their support, but they wasted it by continuing their conventional war. British did not give the loyalists militia support, instead they kept going on with ther misunderstood strategy. In the South, the British had won most of their battles and were able to capture major sea ports. In late 1778, they captured Savannah, Georgia. In spring 1780, they captured Charlestown, South Carolina, and also captured 5,000 patriot soldiers that were there. That summer, the British captured Camden, South Carolina. Just as the British start fighting in these areas in the golf, Bernardo de Galvez started attacking the British forts in the Golf Coasts. In 1780, spanish captured Mobile, Alabama. a year later, they captured Pensacola. 

BERNARDO DE GALVEZ

Bernardo de Gálvez, an aristocrat born in Spain and trained for a military career, became governor of the Spanish colony of Louisiana in 1777. When Spain entered the Revolutionary War on the side of the American colonies, he helped fight the British in Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. He kept the British busy in the South, and finally drove them from the area, freeing it up for American trading. For these successes, he was named a don (an aristocratic title similar to the British earl) by the Spanish government, and eventually was made viceroy (overall ruler) of New Spain (Mexico).

After this mess, the British failed to control the southern countryside. The situation during the war was very harsh. for example, if the father is a patriot, and the son is a loyalist, they had to be against eachother regardless on what they thought about it.

In october 1780, at King Mountain in South Carolina, the patriots crushed the loyalist militia and excerted prisioners. The loyalist lost men and a lot of territory, and many of the people who were neutral moved to the patriot's side, including some loyalists because they started resenting the British for not helping them out and blamed them for bringing chaos into their country. The British were loosing support. General Cornwallis was very frustrated with this, because he wasn't able to control the South. The Continental Army in the south, was supervised by two commanders; Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan. In 1701 these people caused heavy losses in to battles to the British at Cowpens, South Carolina and Guilford Court House in North Carolina.

Altough the war didn't really look for the patriots to win, there were many factors that were helping them out, like the fact that British were making tactical mistakes, and that they misunderstood the war and political gramdification. It also helped a lot that patriots were united, fighting for a cause.