Greg Brooking is part-time assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He received his Ph.D. in December 2013 from Georgia State University in Atlanta. His publications include chapters in The Making of the Trans-Appalachian West: Society, Culture, and Peoples, 1754-1832, edited by Darren Reid, and General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, ed. by Gregory Massey and James Piecuch; “‘a Very unexpected alarming and serious scene’: James Wright, the Southern Strategy, and the Siege of Savannah.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, forthcoming; and numerous book reviews and encyclopedia entries. He lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, with his wife, Leslie, and three children.
On the chilly evening of January 18, 1776, Georgia’s royal governor, Sir James Wright, summoned Rebel leaders Joseph Clay and Noble Wimberly Jones to his home – on the corner of modern-day Telfair Square in Savannah – to discuss the recent arrival of a British fleet off the coast near Tybee Island. He informed them […]
