Frontier Fort From Revolutionary War Found in Ga.

[BlueGin]

Kind of interesting that some of these forts were no larger than a tennis court. You always think of them being bigger when they talk of them holding 300 plus people.

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Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gunbattle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort built on a frontiersman's cattle farm.

More than 234 years later, archaeologists say they've pinpointed the location of Carr's Fort in northeastern Georgia after a search with metal detectors covering more than 4 square miles turned up musket balls and rifle parts as well as horse shoes and old frying pans.

The February 1779 shootout at Carr's Fort turned back men sent to Wilkes County to recruit colonists loyal to the British army. It was also a prelude to the more prominent battle of Kettle Creek, where the same patriot fighters who attacked the fort went on to ambush and decimate an advancing British force of roughly 800 men.

The battles were a blow to British plans to make gains in Georgia, the last of the original 13 colonies, and other Southern settlements by bolstering their ranks with colonists sympathetic to the crown.

Frontier Fort From Revolutionary War Found in Ga. - ABC News

 

[Oldguy]

Some of the currently operating forward bases in Afghanistan aren't much bigger.

 

[editec]

The Southern Colonies were rife with Loyalists. (largely because economically the South needed to trade with England)

So much so that much of what happened in those places was more like a CIVIL WAR between neighbors than a war for Independence from Britian.

I believe that if the Brits had focused their attention in the Southern colonies earlier in the war, they might have divided the colonies leaving only the Mid Atlantic and Northeastern States fighting for independence.