Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War

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The southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the major theater of military operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War, 1778–1781. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Tactics consisted of both strategic battles and guerrilla warfare. During the first three years of the conflict, 1775–1778, the largest military encounters between Continental Army and the British Army had been in the New England and Middle colonies, around Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. British General John Burgoyne's October 1777 defeat and surrender in the Saratoga campaign convinced the French to conclude a formal alliance with the Americans in 1778, transforming the conflict from one between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies to a global war. On the North American mainland the British Army largely abandoned operations in the north and pursued control of the Southern Colonies and troops were also redeployed to defend the British...

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