The American Revolution: The War for Our Independence. This revolution opened the door to our liberty, to our freedom, and fundamentally to what America is today. Most Americans have heard stories of famous battles, important people (George Washington for example) and everything in between. However, this only concerned our side of the American Revolution and a small fraction of people learned about the revolutionary campaign led by Great Britain. The only thing people were told was that Britain lost the war. What about the triumphs, the strategies and everything that happened in the space of a few years? Few people know it, but the British dealt a major blow to the Patriots in the final years of the war. Even though the United States won the American Revolution, Britain dealt a major blow to the colonists when the British successfully and brutally took the city of Charleston, South Carolina. By the end of the war in 1778, Britain was close to defeat. The current commander of the British forces was Lieutenant General Henry Clinton who attempted to stop this rebellion. He was thinking about how to accomplish this with North America under Patriot control. Clinton then decided to turn to the South of the United States (www.theamericanrevolutiong.org). Fighting became intense between militias and British forces (www.theamericanrevolution.org). However, General Clinton had visited the American South before, but failed to take a key city (Charleston, South Carolina) by sea on June 28, 1776 (www.theamericanrevolution.org ). In the meantime, he was back in London, England. , the British government thought the same thing as General Clinton: concentrate its efforts on the southern part of the United States (www.theameric...... middle of article ......com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. March 27, 2014. .The Post and Courier. "The American Revolution in South Carolina - The Siege of Charleston." . Web. March 27, 2014. .University of South Carolina “Patriots ELA Powerpoint 2012. March 27, 2014Rickard, J. “Siege of Charleston”. 2012. March 31. 2014