Dr. Lee F. McGee is an Emergency Medicine Physician from Pittsburgh, PA with an interest in 18th Century cavalry. He graduated from Allegheny College and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has written and lectured on cavalry operations in the American Revolution in the South in 1780 and 1781 for Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution and contributed a chapter on the influence of European practices and experience on Continental Cavalry to Cavalry of the American Revolution (Westholme, 2012). He is currently a contributor to the Calvary and Armor Journal’s series for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Introduction The actions of the cavalry at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781 have been particularly difficult to understand. Previous researchers have struggled to explain the actions of the cavalry under Lt. Col. William Washington while accounting for his seeming to be in multiple places on the battlefield at different times.[1] During research […]