“Nothing but blood and slaughter has prevailed among the Whigs and tories, and their inveteracy against each other must, if it continues, depopulate this part of the country”

The Nothing But Blood and Slaughter Series

"The most complete history of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas"

            The might of the greatest military in the world was brought to bear on a people that possessed no navy, no army, no industry and no economy.  Conquering these people proved to be rather easy.  Their amateur armies were no match for the might of one of the greatest nations in history.       Winning the battles was easy, however all across the frontiers a handful of guerillas did not surrender.  Some fought because they believe the propaganda spread by a biased media.  Some fought because they believed it was a Holy War, and the enemy was godless and sacrilegious and had to be destroyed with fire and sword.  Even old enemies are considered friends, as long as they can help defeat this arrogant superpower.   Is this Afghanistan in the 21^st century?  No, it is the newly created United States in the 18^th century. Most people know of Lexington and Bunker Hill, but very few people know that the Revolutionary War was fought and won in the South.  It included the bloodiest battles, the longest siege, the worst defeat of the war, and the largest loss of life for the French allies.    At the time of the Revolutionary War the British army was the mightiest nation on Earth, but this was their “Vietnam”.  The war in the Carolinas looked more like Bosnia in 1992 than combat in the 18^th century.  Most of the actions in the Carolinas were fought between Americans, with no British troops at all, in a true civil war.  Many of the Southerners were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who thought the British were blasphemers.  The Southern battles led the British to the decision to negotiate a “peace with honor” that ended the war.  This four volume series attempts to list every single military action, no matter how small, in the Carolinas.