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In March 1778, following the capture of a British army at Saratoga and the consequent entry of France into the American Revolutionary War on the American side, George Germain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, wrote to General Sir Henry Clinton that capturing the Southern Colonies was "considered by the King as an object of great importance in the scale of the war". [5]
Edge of Empires, a History of Georgia. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2. Brosset, Marie-Félicité (1849). Histoire de la Géorgie depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Volume I [History of Georgia from Ancient Times to the 19th Century, Volume 1] (in French). Saint-Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Lyman Hall was the sole Georgia delegate to attend the Continental Congress.. Though Georgians opposed British trade regulations, many hesitated to join the revolutionary movement that emerged in the American colonies in the early 1770s and resulted in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).
The History of Georgia, Volume 1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 1816720. Nester, William (2004). The Frontier War for American Independence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0077-1. OCLC 260092836. Pennington, Edward (July 1930). "East Florida in the American Revolution, 1775–1778". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly ...
Invasion of Georgia (1742), part of the War of Jenkins' Ear when Spanish forces attempted to seize the British colony of Georgia; an Invasion of Georgia during the American War of Independence in April 1778 by British forces, St. Simons, GA#American Revolution; Battle of Chickamauga, September 1863; Burning of Atlanta, September 1864 Battle of ...
The written word can have a lasting impact. That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday ...
Willcox, W: Portrait of a General, Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence, New York, 1964, Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 232001108.
In North America, hostilities took place along a front in the North, along the border with New France and their allied Native American tribes. Americans later called it the French and Indian War. In 1762 Georgia feared a potential Spanish invasion from Florida, although this did not occur by the time peace was signed at the 1763 Treaty of Paris.