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Origins of the British Southern Strategy
- When
- March 1778
- Where
- British war planning
- Part of
- Capture of Savannah
Germain and Clinton embraced a plan to regain the Southern Colonies, beginning with Savannah.
In March 1778, following Saratoga and France's entry into the war, George Germain wrote to Henry Clinton that capturing the Southern Colonies was considered by the King an object of great importance in the scale of the war. Clinton's basic plan, first proposed by Thomas Brown in 1776, began with the capture of Savannah, the capital of Georgia.
Sources
- Capture of Savannah Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27
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