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The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign (Paperback)
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The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign (Paperback)
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On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover's camp on the old
Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops
and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a
stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless
Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis's cavalry. Although
Tarleton fled the battlefield to avoid capture, the American
victory effectively destroyed the light corps of the British army
in the South. Stung by the loss, Cornwallis ordered a deliberate
and dogged chase of the American rebels, a campaign that meandered
through the wilderness and small communities of the Carolinas.
After months of retreating, the Continental army under the command
of Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island Quaker, chose to confront the
British army near Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. Although
they fought with tenacity, the Americans were forced to retreat,
but Cornwallis's army had suffered casualties too heavy to pursue
the Continentals and instead fell back to the port city of
Wilmington. Discouraged by the guerrilla tactics, Cornwallis moved
north, to his final defeat at Yorktown. In The Cowpens-Guilford
Courthouse Campaign, Burke Davis provides an engaging account of
the key battles in the American South, demonstrating that it was
here that the strength of the Continental army's resistance to
superior British forces laid the foundations for the final American
victory.
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