The Hornet's Nest
Chapters (67)
- Cover
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Principal Characters
- BOOK I
- CHAPTER 1
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CHAPTER 4
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
- CHAPTER 7
- CHAPTER 8
- CHAPTER 9
- CHAPTER 10
- CHAPTER 11
- CHAPTER 12
- CHAPTER 13
- BOOK II
- CHAPTER 14
- CHAPTER 15
- CHAPTER 16
- CHAPTER 17
- CHAPTER 18
- CHAPTER 19
- CHAPTER 20
- CHAPTER 21
- CHAPTER 22
- CHAPTER 23
- CHAPTER 24
- CHAPTER 25
- CHAPTER 26
- CHAPTER 27
- CHAPTER 28
- CHAPTER 29
- CHAPTER 30
- BOOK III
- CHAPTER 31
- CHAPTER 32
- CHAPTER 33
- CHAPTER 34
- CHAPTER 35
- CHAPTER 36
- CHAPTER 37
- CHAPTER 38
- CHAPTER 39
- CHAPTER 40
- CHAPTER 41
- CHAPTER 42
- CHAPTER 43
- CHAPTER 44
- CHAPTER 45
- CHAPTER 46
- CHAPTER 47
- CHAPTER 48
- CHAPTER 49
- CHAPTER 50
- CHAPTER 51
- CHAPTER 52
- CHAPTER 53
- CHAPTER 54
- CHAPTER 55
- CHAPTER 56
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Copyright
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Principal Characters
BOOK I: 1763–1773
CHAPTER 1. The Philadelphia Cordwainers
CHAPTER 2. Sons of Liberty in Norfolk
CHAPTER 3. A Corrupt Royal Government
CHAPTER 4. The Regulators
CHAPTER 5. The Regulator Revolt
CHAPTER 6. Quakers Move to Georgia
CHAPTER 7. The Battle at Alamance
CHAPTER 8. Trial and Execution
CHAPTER 9. The Pratts Move to Georgia
CHAPTER 10. Life on the Frontier
CHAPTER 11. The Pratts and the Morrises
CHAPTER 12. The Neighboring Indians
CHAPTER 13. William Bartram Visits Georgia
BOOK II: 1774–1777
CHAPTER 14. Stirrings of a Conflict
CHAPTER 15. A Special Colony
CHAPTER 16. Massacre of the Indians
CHAPTER 17. Clarke Organizes a Militia
CHAPTER 18. Peace in Georgia, Fighting in the North
CHAPTER 19. The Georgia Navy Strikes
CHAPTER 20. Does God Approve Revolution?
CHAPTER 21. Thomas Brown, British Spy
CHAPTER 22. Tar and Feathers
CHAPTER 23. A Rebirth at St. Augustine
CHAPTER 24. The Florida Rangers
CHAPTER 25. “Common Sense”
CHAPTER 26. Georgians Expel the British Governor
CHAPTER 27. The Struggle for Indian Allegiance
CHAPTER 28. Florida Rangers Versus Georgia Militia
CHAPTER 29. Georgia Remains Independent
CHAPTER 30. A Deadly Duel
BOOK III: 1778–1785
CHAPTER 31. The British Southern Strategy
CHAPTER 32. Last Invasion of Florida
CHAPTER 33. Quash Dolly, Slave Woman
CHAPTER 34. The British Take Savannah
CHAPTER 35. The Hornet’s Nest
CHAPTER 36. “Take No Prisoners!”
CHAPTER 37. Ethan Pratt Goes to War
CHAPTER 38. The British Take Georgia
CHAPTER 39. The Americans and d’Estaing Attack Savannah
CHAPTER 40. New York to Savannah
CHAPTER 41. Brown Returns to Augusta
CHAPTER 42. The Fall of Charles Town
CHAPTER 43. Cornwallis Triumphant
CHAPTER 44. Georgia Militia to Carolina
CHAPTER 45. Attack on Augusta
CHAPTER 46. Four Hundred to the Watauga Valley
CHAPTER 47. The Over Mountain Men
CHAPTER 48. Ethan at King’s Mountain
CHAPTER 49. General Nathanael Greene
CHAPTER 50. Georgians Turn to Combat at Home
CHAPTER 51. A Victory at Augusta
CHAPTER 52. Ethan and Mavis
CHAPTER 53. Cornwallis Moves North
CHAPTER 54. Mavis Goes North
CHAPTER 55. Georgia Finally Secured
CHAPTER 56. Ethan Returns to Augusta
Epilogue
About Jimmy Carter
Dedication
In memory of my parents, Earl and Lillian, my brother, Billy, and my sisters, Gloria and Ruth
Acknowledgments
This novel was begun more than seven years ago and, while writing three other books, I turned constantly to it with new ideas and information about my own ancestors and others who played a crucial role in achieving our nation’s independence. Most Americans know very little about major events of the war in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, and I wanted to present as accurate an account as possible of the complex and crucial interrelationships among colonists, British officials, and the Indian tribes during the twenty years that led to the war’s successful end in 1783.