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By the beginning of the 1770's, events to the
north began to lead to war with Britain.
Georgia, for the most part, continued with
business as usual. When the colonial
representatives began convening The Continental
Congress in 1776, Georgia reluctantly sent
delegates.
The early years of the
American Revolution were
quiet in Georgia. In 1778 new orders from London
marked out the South as the main theater of war.
British warships that had been sailing off the
New York Harbor headed to the
South Carolina and
Georgia coast. Major General Provost took
Savannah with little resistance and converted
the small community back to the British.
General Anthony Wayne was put in charge of
Georgia operations shortly after the victory at
Yorktown. Now the British stronghold in Savannah
is the target of the combined Continental forces
and the Georgia militia. Although outnumbered
2-1, Wayne advances on the town, which the
British evacuate. In six months Wayne eliminates
the British presence in the state, never once
having numerically superior forces.
On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth
state to ratify the
U.S. Constitution.
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