When examining the course of the American Revolution in the South, one often finds references to the activities of Thomas Brown, a key loyalist on the southern frontier. History, however, has relegated Brown to the status of a dark, almost mythical figure, remembering him most as the man who, by hanging thirteen patriots as vindication for his treatment at the hands of the Sons of Liberty, embodied the villainy of the king himself. Using Thomas Brown's career as the thread to weaving together such aspects of the American past as colonial migration, Indian diplomacy, British evacuation and the formation of new settlements in the Caribbean, Cashin provides a lucid, panoramic view of the Revolutionary period in the South.

Includes index.

List of Maps. Preface to the 1999 Edition. Preface. From Yorkshire to Georgia -- Shaping a Southern Strategy, 1775 -- Testing the Plan, 1776 -- Frontier War, 1777-1778 -- The Plan Unfolds, 1779 -- The Plan as the Southern Strategy, 1780 -- The Plan Fails, 1781 -- The Last Campaign, 1782 -- Florida Interlude, 1783-1785 -- A Gentleman Planter -- Whitby and St. Vincent -- The Legend and the Man - Epilogue. Biographical Sketches of Some Leading Figures. Appendix: Muster Rolls, King's Rangers. Notes. Bibliography. Index.