{"title":"Carl P. Borick","description":"Carl P. Borick is the assistant director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and the author of Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782.","products":[{"product_id":"a-gallant-defense-paperback","title":"A Gallant Defense - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1779 Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York, seeking to capture the colonies' most important southern port, Charleston, South Carolina. Clinton and his officers believed that victory in Charleston would change both the seat of the war and its character. In this comprehensive study of the 1780 siege and surrender of Charleston, Carl P. Borick offers a full examination of the strategic and tactical elements of Clinton's operations. Suggesting that the importance of the siege has been underestimated, Borick contends that the British effort against Charleston was one of the most critical campaigns of the war. Borick examines the reasons for the shift in British strategy, the efforts of their army and navy, and the difficulties the patriots faced as they defended the city. He explores the roles of key figures in the campaign, including Benjamin Lincoln, William Moultrie, and Lord Charles Cornwallis. Borick relies on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources relating to the siege and includes maps that depict the British approach to the city and the complicated military operations that led to the patriots' greatest defeat of the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA detailed account of the tactics, strategy, and far-reaching consequences of a pivotal Revolutionary War campaign\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367546912991,"sku":"9781611171396","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7eo-A7EAB69781611171396.webp?v=1789109790"},{"product_id":"backcountry-resistance-south-carolinas-militia-and-the-fight-for-american-independence-hardcover","title":"Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary story of a war fought by ordinary people\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBackcountry Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl P. Borick delivers a groundbreaking account of the citizen militia that defied British forces in South Carolina's volatile Backcountry during the pivotal Southern campaign of the Revolutionary War. When Charleston fell in May of 1780 and the Continental Army retreated, many assumed the Patriot cause in the South had collapsed. In the state's rugged interior, though, partisan militias waged a brutal insurgency that challenged British control and changed the course of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on rank-and-file militiamen, Borick explores how these ordinary men were recruited, armed, fed, and motivated. Drawing on underused pension records and state claims, he reconstructs their everyday realities and their battlefield experiences. He also examines the war's devastating effects on civilians, including enslaved people and women, who played crucial roles in the struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichly detailed and grounded in the human experience of warfare, \u003ci\u003eBackcountry Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of South Carolina's militia during the decisive years of the American War of Independence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368962228447,"sku":"9781643365558","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MUBo7sneH09781643365558.webp?v=1789135956"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/carl-p-borick.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}