American Revolutionary War in the south

Ian Saberton was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield, and at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick in the UK. He holds a PhD in history from the latter, having previously graduated with a BA (Hons) in Russian from the former. After translating technical Russian for the British Library, he entered the UK Government Service.Perhaps of greatest relevance to his writing about the war in the south was his service as an adviser on constitutional and political affairs, machinery of government, contingency planning, devolution and the like in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) at the height of the troubles. Part of his duties, as the highways and byways of the world were searched for lessons to be learnt, was to write historical papers of an applied nature for the benefit of Ministers. It is then that he became keenly interested in the American Revolution. Overall, what his service in NIO has brought to his re-evaluation of the southern campaigns is hands-on experience in dealing with a quasirevolutionary situation. There are, despite the passage of years, distinct parallels to be drawn between the troubles and the revolutionary war in America.

• 1 The Decision that lost Britain the War: An Enigma now resolved2 Britain's last throw of the dice begins the Charlestown Campaign of 17803 Midsummer 1780 in the Carolinas and Georgia Events predating the Battle of Camden4 The Glorious Sixteenth and the Action at Fishing Creek5 Cornwallis quits Charlotte, abandoning the Autumn Campaign of 17806 Cornwallis's refitment at Winnsborough, his Defence of South Carolina, and the Start of the Winter Campaign 1 November to 18 January 17817 Cornwallis and the Rest of the Winter Campaign 19 January to 7 April 17818 The aborted Virginia Campaign and its Aftermath May to August 17819 The Siege and Capitulation of Yorktown and Gloucester10 Decoding British ciphers used in the south, 1780-8111 Fire-hunting by Night in South Carolina A Pursuit of British Officers12 Certain British and British American actors in the Southern Theatre of the War13 Biographical sketches of Royal Militia commanders in the Carolinas and Georgia, 1780-8214 The Management of Sequestered Estates in South Carolina, 1780-82