A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America

16 August 1780

Battle of Camden

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powers, and not by any antecedent commands.c HA P. The detachoicnt left the army on the 27th, and h fallowed the Americans without any thing ma- terial happening on the route, except the brs of a number of horicB, in confequencc of the ra- pidity of the march, and the heat of the climate : By preifing horfes on the road, the light troops arrived the next day at Camden, when Lieute< nant-colonel T^rleton gained intelligence, that Colonel Buford had quitted Rugely's mills on the 26th, and that he was marching with great dili- gence to join a corps then upon the road from Salisbury to Charlotte town in North Carolina.

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The wounded of both parties were coliefted , with all poilible difpatch, and treated with equal humanity. The Am«riean officers and foldiers who were unable to travel, were paroled the next moruing, and placed at the neighbouring planta- tions and in a meeting houfe, not far diftant from the field of battle : Surgeons were fent for from Camden and Charlotte town to aStl them, and every polBble convenience was provided by the Britilh. This bufinefs being accomplilhcd. Lieu- tenant-colonel TatletoQ gained intelligence, that the American reinforcement had failcn back upon the report of the late affiiir j therefore, on the evening of the 30th, he commenced his march towards Earl Cornwallis. The main army (e^ had not moved more than forty miles from Nelfon's ferry, when the firft exprefs arrived with the news of the advantage obtained by the light troops. A few days afterwards, Lord Corn- wallis was joined at Camden by the detachment under Lieutenant-colonel Tarlcton, with the addi- tion of the American cannon, royals, and wag- gons, which were delivered to the artillery and quarter-mafter-general's departments.

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Moultrie is forming a camp at Bacon bridge, where he has about five hundred horfe, being horfe of this ftate, Baylor's and Bland's of Virginia. General Williamfon is encamped at Augufta. A thoufand men are expected from bis brigade — General RicbardTon aiid Colonel Caphew are raifing the militia a,t and about Camden. — At this moment oyr efcape depends on farther delay on the enemy's part. Two or three weeks more will make this garrifon flrong ; the inhabitants, in general, arc in good fpirits. Competent judges (b) fay, that Sir Henry Clin- ton will then have caufe to repent his enterprizc.

17 January 1781

Battle of Cowpens

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The number of the killed and wounded, in the a£tion at the Cowpens, amounted to near three

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balnlity, have alternately brought Generals Mor-CHAP. ganand Greene into bis power by co-operative ^^■ mbvements : He might alfo have concluded, that all his parties that were beaten in the country, if they had no corps to give them inftant fupport or refiige, muil be coin|Metely deftroyed. Many in- ftancet of this- nature occurred during the war. The fall of Fergufon was a recent and melancholy example : That cataftrophe put a period to the firJt expetution into North Carolina ; and the affair of the Cowpens overshadowed the commencement of the fecond.

15 March 1781

Battle of Guilford Court House

NATHANIEL GREENL

Rtnirn sf tbtUlleJ, weundtil, and miffil, ^* continental troops, in the action of the 15W f March, 1781, mar Guilford court bufft, ' North Carolina.