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Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis (1738 - 1805) Lord Cornwallis, a member of one of England's most prominent noble families, began his military career in 1756. He distinguished himself during the Seven Year's War (1756 - 1763). At …
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As a mere sapling, I witnessed the rebirth of Camden after the devastations of the American Revolution. The British had occupied our town as a supply post in June 1780. When they evacuated eleven months later, they left it "little more than a heap…
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Late in the afternoon of April 25, Greene sent William Washington's cavalry and Captain Robert Kirkwood's Delaware company back to Hobkirk's Hill to gather wounded men and stragglers. Seeing Major John Coffin and his Loyalist cavalry on the hill, …
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Lt. Col. Washington led his Calvary around the east side of the battlefield, then rode into the British rear at the base of Hobkirk's Hill. There he found a large number of stragglers, wounded men, doctors, and other noncombatants. Washington …
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Rawdon's advance companies, the light infantry and grenadiers of the Volunteers of Ireland, struck the pickets on Greene's left. The musket fire alerted the Americans, who hurried to get into battle formation. Meanwhile, Rawdon deployed the fir…
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After Lord Rawdon reinforced his flanks, American and British soldiers exchanged musket volleys for several minutes. The battered British units on Rawdon's left soon began to fall back. Just as American victory seemed assured, a sharpshooter ki…
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Seeing that the British line was much shorter than his own, Greene decided to counterattack. He ordered the 1st Maryland and 2nd Virginia regiments to make a frontal attack against the advancing British troops, while the 2nd Maryland regiment stru…
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Lord Rawdon had defeated the American army at Hobkirk's Hill, but the British gained nothing from the victory. Two days earlier, on April 23, South Carolina partisans under Francis Marion and Henry Lee's Continental legion had forced the surrender…
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Outnumbered and with little hope of getting reinforcements, Lord Rawdon believed that it would be foolish to sit passively behind Camden's fortifications. Instead, after an American deserter reported that Greene had no artillery, Rawdon chose to a…
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Along this ridge, American and British armies clashed on April 25, 1781, in the Revolutionary War Battle of Hobkirk's Hill. Major General Nathanael Greene's American troops had occupied the hill to threaten Camden, the most important British post …
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