Question

A. Why did the British focus their fighting in the southern colonies

B. Was this strategy successful why or why not

Answer 1

A) They believed that the loyalists were strongest in the South and had hoped to enlist the slaves in their cause.

B) Well, because they believed that the loyalists were strongest in the South, they successed in the South. They occupied Savannah, Georgia, in late 1778 and Charleston, South Carolina, in May 1779. They also struck a disastrous blow on General Horatio Gates' forces at Camden, South Carolina, in August 1780. But they had overestimated loyalist sentiment in the South. As a result, the British southern strategy was a dismal failure.