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Article: Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings: Soldier, Peer of the Realm, Governor-General of India.(The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of Hastings: Soldier, Peer of the Realm, Governor-General of India. By Paul David Nelson. (Madison and Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. Pp. 238. $47.50, ISBN 0-8386-4071-0.)
The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. By David K. Wilson. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 341. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-573-3.)
For British politicians and soldiers faced with the daunting challenge of bringing the rebellious American colonies to heel after 1775, one belief, above all others, came to offer a tantalizing hope of victory: that the ...