**Augusta's Revolutionary War: The Siege That Broke British Power in Georgia**
PEOPLE
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Brown
Loyalist Commander, King's Rangers Commander, Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Colonel Elijah Clarke
Georgia Militia Commander, Patriot Partisan Leader
Brigadier General Andrew Pickens
South Carolina Militia General, Siege Commander, Continental Army Brigadier
Colonel James Grierson
British Loyalist Officer, Fort Grierson Commandant
KEY EVENTS
Thomas Brown Surrenders Fort Cornwallis
Jun 1781
Lee's Mayham Tower Overtopped Fort Cornwallis
Jun 1781
Fort Grierson Captured by Patriots
May 1781
First Battle of Augusta — Clarke's Failed Assault
Sep 1780
Greene's Southern Campaign Reaches Georgia
Apr 1781
Brown's Reprisals After the Failed Assault
Sep 1780
STORIES
HISTORICAL VOICE
The Man Called Burnfoot
Thomas Brown arrived in Georgia in 1774 with capital, ambition, and a plan to establish a plantation in the backcountry. He was twenty-four years old, a recent immigrant from Yorkshire, and he had cho...
HISTORICAL VOICE
The Tower That Won Augusta
The problem with Fort Cornwallis was the walls. Thomas Brown had been a careful engineer as well as a ruthless commander, and the fort he had built on the high ground near the Savannah River had walls...