USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Col. Elijah Clarke led a force of Georgia patriots in an attack against British loyalists. Aided by South Carolinians, the patriots scattered the Tories, killing their British commander.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colonel Andrew Pickens led South Carolina and Georgia militiamen to victory at the Battle of Kettle Creek in 1779.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was one of three American commanders at the Battle of Musgrove’s Mill, during which he was wounded. Clarke would go on to serve in Georgia’s legislature from 1781 to 1790 and in the 1789 state constitutional convention. He also continued to lead militia forces against Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-4: -A militia force of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta. The victory demonstrated the inability of British forces to hold the interior of the state, or to protect even sizable numbers of Loyalist recruits outside their immediate area.

Detailed explanation-5: -Georgia | Feb 14, 1779. The first major victory for the Patriot forces in the back country of Georgia during the American Revolution, the Battle of Kettle Creek, ended with the defeat of a Loyalist militia force on their way to British-controlled Augusta. Patriot Victory.