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""[Piecuch has] produced a detailed, well researched and comprehensive account of the service of South Carolina's Loyalist Provincial units. His text serves as a welcome addition to documenting the contributions of these units and placing them in the larger context of the southern theater.""--Journal of the American Revolution ""At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the British could have entertained no hope of quashing a revolt stretching the entire Atlantic seaboard without seriously increasing the size of its relatively small peace-time army. A part of that increase was expected to come from America itself, its Loyalist population, those residents who sided with the King's government. To put the most useful of these troops on a proper footing, the British created the 'Provincial Establishment, ' in effect creating American regulars fighting against the Continental Army. Every province (or state) contributed volunteers to these corps. In this volume, author Jim Piecuch examines the role of those Provincials raised among the Loyalist South Carolinians. From 1778-1783, these groups, particularly the South Carolina Royalists, fought in some of the bloodiest battles against the likes of Nathanael Greene, Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter. The reward, for those that survived, would be confiscated property and exile. South Carolina Provincials tells the often neglected story of these soldiers and their families."" --Todd Braisted, Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies and author of Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City

“[Piecuch has] produced a detailed, well researched and comprehensive account of the service of South Carolina’s Loyalist Provincial units. His text serves as a welcome addition to documenting the contributions of these units and placing them in the larger context of the southern theater.”—Journal of the American Revolution “At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the British could have entertained no hope of quashing a revolt stretching the entire Atlantic seaboard without seriously increasing the size of its relatively small peace-time army. A part of that increase was expected to come from America itself, its Loyalist population, those residents who sided with the King’s government. To put the most useful of these troops on a proper footing, the British created the ‘Provincial Establishment,’ in effect creating American regulars fighting against the Continental Army. Every province (or state) contributed volunteers to these corps. In this volume, author Jim Piecuch examines the role of those Provincials raised among the Loyalist South Carolinians. From 1778-1783, these groups, particularly the South Carolina Royalists, fought in some of the bloodiest battles against the likes of Nathanael Greene, Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter. The reward, for those that survived, would be confiscated property and exile. South Carolina Provincials tells the often neglected story of these soldiers and their families.” —Todd Braisted, Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies and author of Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City

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Jim Piecuch earned his BA and MA degrees at the University of New Hampshire and his PhD at the College of William & Mary. He is a former history professor and has written several articles on colonial and Revolutionary history. He is also the author of several books, including The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History (History Press, 2006), Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South (University of South Carolina Press, 2008), Cavalry of the American Revolution (Westholme, 2012), and General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, co-authored with Gregory Massey (University of South Carolina Press, 2012).

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