10/15

Revolutionary War and the Southern Theatre - G- Slide

Reference: Please read one of these for future discussion.

• History on Film - The Patriot
  
• Journal of the Revolutionary War - Famous Battles

What types of colonists were Loyalists?

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• Tories were Loyalists who did not believe in the revolution
• It's estimated that 20% of settlers were Tories
• After the war - the Paris of Treaty sought to give back Tory land that was confiscated.
• Most famous Tory ? - (BA)
  

​More information on Loyalists vs Patriots

Yankee Doodle Dandy

"The lyrics were venomous. “Yankee” was a withering word for a colonist. A “doodle” was a rube or a fool, and the doodle in this song rides a pony, instead of a horse, which makes him ridiculous. And why is the titular bumpkin heading to town? He hopes to become one of those hyperstylized fellows known as a macaroni." NY TIMES

10/17 ST Battle Reality

• Great G. Washington site​
• ​Smallpox (17%)
• ​Music
• Francis Marion (the “Swamp Fox”), Thomas Sumter (the “Gamecock”), and Andrew Pickens (the “Wizard Owl”).
• Banastre "Bloody Ban" Tarleton
• Cannons, Mortars and Howitzers

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