Episode 2.4: What is all the fuss about George Washington? Was he really all that great?

The Revolution Moves South

After the British struggled to defeat the Americans and the Continental army in the North they elected to, under the command of the newly appointed General Clinton, move South where they had more support. This move took the heat off of Washington's army which spent a very rough winter at Valley Forge. Where it not for the leadership of Washington and his decision to winter there with the troops this might have been the end of the Continental Army. The British would encounter immediate success in the South at places such as Savanah Georgia and Charlestown South Carolina. In the end however the Southern campaign would stall and the British would be trapped between the strengthened Continental army of George Washington and the French navy and loose at the decisive battle of Yorktown and loosing the war.

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