Author
Coleman; Kenneth
Year
1958
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Language
English
Pages
5
ISBN
978-0-82035-973-1
Last Update
31-Dec-2025
Keywords
History ; American Studies
There are many reasons to welcome the reprinting of what remains the standard work on Georgia and the American Revolution. Georgia was one of the few colonies not to send delegates to the Stamp Act Congress (1765) and later to the First Continental Congress (1775). It was the last state to declare allegiance to Britain treasonous. In 1778 it became the only state that the British captured during the Revolutionary War. The British commander Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell delighted in the prospect of taking “a stripe and star from the rebel flag of Congress” (122). Georgia alone retained civilian government...
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