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The Battle of Green Spring: A Footnote on the Road to Yorktown
byEnsign Ebenezer Denny calculated that he went from a green officer to a combat veteran in all of four minutes. Yet in those harsh…
Charles Lord Cornwallis
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The British Entry Into, and Occupation of Charlotte, September 26 to October 14, 1780
byThe first objective in Lt. Gen. Earl Cornwallis’s first invasion of North Carolina was the capture of Charlotte. He intended to establish a post…
Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
byBOOK REVIEW: Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World by Richard Middleton (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022). It says something about an…
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The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington’s Slave Roundup
byOn October 19, 1781, Gen. George Washington attained his apex as a soldier. Straddling a spirited charger at the head of a formidable Franco-American…
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The Importance of a Small Skirmish during the Race to the Dan
byThe Race to the Dan is a famous part of the Southern War of the American Revolution, a strategic retreat by Gen Nathanael Greene,…
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The Troubled Relationship Between Clinton and Cornwallis and their “War” after the War
byA search for scapegoats is certain to follow a lost war, and in the wake of the British disaster at Yorktown in October 1781…
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In the Footsteps of Captain Johann Ewald at Yorktown
byAs night slowly gives into morning the salty breeze brings a mist across the suffocating sulphury air filled with fireballs. The fireballs pass each…
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Review: War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
byWar at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion by John Knight (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2020) The American Revolution produced numerous well-known…
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North Carolina and Public Spirit in the American Revolution, 1775–1783
byIn the South, the American Revolution was largely a civil war, one between Whig supporters of American liberties and Loyalists or Tories, who remained…
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The British Naval Signals Missions of 1781
byRichard Peters’ letter of October 19, 1781, to Gen. George Washington mentioned two missions to obtain copies of certain British naval signals and convey…
Britain’s Last Throw of the Dice Begins—the Charlestown Campaign of 1780
byBy the close of 1779 British possessions in the revolted colonies were confined in the north to New York City, Long Island, and Penobscot….
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The Battle of Shallow Ford, October 14, 1780
byIn September 1780, writing from Hillsborough, North Carolina, just one month after the disastrous defeat at Camden, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates penned a disconcerted…
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Cornwallis and the Winter Campaign, January to April 1781
byLeaving Colonel Francis Lord Rawdon to command in the field from Georgetown to Augusta, Lt. Gen. Charles Earl Cornwallis, the British General Officer Commanding…
The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune: The Fall of Fort Motte
byThe Revolutionary War in the Carolinas after the fall of Charleston was a great arena of war with hundreds of small battlefields. Some were…