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Smallpox began to spread among American soldiers in Quebec in 1775. Then along the east coast of the colonies.
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George Rogers Clark was sent by Virginia with a militia force to strike Britsh forts beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Clarks' forces easily captured two Mississippi River outposts, Kaskaskia and Cahokia.
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The british turned tob the South in late 1778. Their aim was to capture some key cities, win over the local population, and thenmarch north, acquiring one state after another.
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The British took the city of Savannah, Georgia. Wthin a month, they controled Georgia.
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Clark and his men trudged across 200 miles, at times splashing through icy floodwaters up to their chests.
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By 1779, smallpox reached New Orleans. Soon after, it spread to Native American groups all across North America. Smallpox deaths far outnumbered casualities during the American Revolution
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Patriots fortunes began to improve. Some 900 frontier fighters defeated a lager force of British troops and Loyalist atop Kings Mountain in South Carolina
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General Nathanael Greene took over command of the Continental army in the South. Greene split his arm in two. He led 1200 men into eastern South Carolina, leaving General Daniel Morgan with 800 men in the west.
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Damiel Morgan won a clear victory at the Battle of Cowpens. He put a small militia force in front, telling men to fire three shots and then retreat. The British rushed foward, only to be met by charging cavalry and a line of skilled riflemen.
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Washington and his ranking officers were reunited for one last meal together at Fraunces Tavern in New York City. In parting, each man, in turn, embraced Washington. One officer wrote, "Such a scene of sorrow and weeping I had never before witnessed."
