American forces were often more maneuverable even though Britain controlled the sea and could shift troops by ship. A genuine intervention at Savannah would have arrived rapidly with larger warships and several battalions rather than a small provisioning detachment. Such a concentration might have stabilized the immediate situation even if it could not guarantee long-term control. The Committee of Safety's efforts to isolate Governor Wright from the rest of Georgia suggest that revolutionary commitment in the colony was not uniform and that loyalist support remained strategically relevant.
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Britain fails to exploit maritime mobility in Georgia
British command possessed the sea mobility to concentrate troops suddenly at Savannah, but the provisioning force was too small to exploit Georgia's potentially significant loyalist support.