Video: The Revolutionary War - Dark Days
Summary:
Description: British success, British military leaders, social and economic impact of the Revolutionary War © 2004 Discovery Channel School Grades: 6-8 (24:49 min.)
Segments:
The Revolutionary War: British Success in the South (11:48)
War Weariness and the British Plan to Take the South (02:14)
Henry Clinton Takes Charleston in the Worst Rebel Defeat of the War (04:18)
Barrister Tarleton: Heroism and Barbarism (02:28)
Horatio Gates and His Militia Men Flee from Lord Cornwallis (02:47)
The Revolutionary War: Hope for the Rebels in the South (10:09)
Partisan Leaders and Their Guerilla Fighters Reinvent American Warfare (04:08)
Southern Loyalists Hope to Avenge Patriot Oppression (01:57)
Rebel Victory at Kings Mountain Offers Hope to the Americans (04:02)