Tag: Johann Kalb

Posted on June 8, 2021June 5, 2021

French Adventurers, Patriots, and Pretentious Imposters in the Fight for American Independence

France was defeated in the Seven Years War. The defeat resulted in France losing valuable colonies, and prestige and influence in Europe. Desperate to regain her past glory, France began to modernize and rearm its army and navy. Realizing that its defeat in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) was mainly the result of a weak […]

by Arthur S. Lefkowitz

Posted on July 15, 2019July 16, 2019

Midsummer 1780 in the Carolinas and Georgia—Events predating the Battle of Camden

Besides dealing with events elsewhere, this article relates in particular the plight of the Carolina loyalists and the way in which British ascendancy in South Carolina—achieved only by June 1780—began so soon to unravel in the face of internal uprisings and an external threat. By mid July Major Gen. Johann Kalb had advanced from the […]

by Ian Saberton