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Author: Thomas W. Lee
Date/Time: Wednesday 02/26/2025 at 11:00 AM
Book: The Palmetto Patriot
Synopsis: His post-retirement move from New Jersey to South Carolina did not lessen Tom Lee's interest in the American Revolution, but rather transferred his focus from the events of 1776-1779, which produced "The Chatham Patriot" to acclaim and adoption by the county school board as required reading, to the Southern Strategy, the British plan of 1779-1781 for South Carolina. Having reached a stalemate with General Washington in the north, British General Clinton sent his fleet and army south in 1779. The plan was to take Savannah and Charleston, march north through the Carolinas and Virginia, and trap Washington. By creating a fictional main character in Samuel Huger, the Palmetto Patriot, to interact with the real people and events that led to the founding of the country, Lee brings a relatable, personal perspective of the four individuals who shaped that era: Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette and John Laurens, who were sometimes referred to as "my three sons" by George Washington, and a little understood military leader in South Carolina named Francis Marion, who was colorfully called "The Swamp Fox" by his British adversaries.
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