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Portraits of Southern Partisans: Likenesses of Thomas Brown and Elijah Clarke

The battles of and between English born merchant Loyalist partisan Thomas Brown and illiterate native North Carolina American guerilla Elijah Clarke lacks for nothing, including drama. These two men fought each other more than once in a clash of their very different respective cultures/politics in Georgia and Florida. They fought many other battles at the […]

by Robert Scott Davis