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American Revolution
Colonel William Crawford proceeds toward the Ohio, 1782
On this day in 1782, American Colonel William Crawford marches his army towards the Ohio River, where General George Washington has charged him with…
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Francis Marion
(born c. 1732, Winyah, South Carolina [U.S.]—died February 26, 1795, Berkeley county, South Carolina, U.S.) colonial American soldier in the American Revolution (1775–83), nicknamed the “Swamp Fox” by the British for his elusive tactics.
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Battle of Camden
(August 16, 1780), in the American Revolution, British victory in South Carolina, one of the most crushing defeats ever inflicted upon an American army.
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Battle of Cowpens
(January 17, 1781), in the American Revolution, brilliant American victory over a British force on the northern border of South Carolina, slowing Lord Cornwallis's campaign to invade North Carolina.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
(born February 4, 1746, Mereczowszczyzna, Poland [now in Belarus]—died October 15, 1817, Solothurn, Switzerland) Polish army officer and statesman who gained fame both for his role in the American Revolution and for his leadership of a national insurrection in his homeland.
(October 7, 1780), in the American Revolution, American victory over a loyalist detachment in South Carolina during the British campaign in the South. To stem the British advance into North Carolina, a force of about 2,000 colonial frontiersmen had been gathered from neighbouring states to replace the Continental forces that had been lost in South Carolina at the battles of Charleston (May 1780) and Camden (August 1780). The frontiersmen felt particularly bitter against the 1,100 soldiers, under Major Patrick Ferguson, who were mostly New Yorkers and South Carolinians loyal to the British. About a mile and a half south of the North Carolina boundary, the frontiersmen surrounded the loyalists on Kings Mountain and killed or captured almost the entire force. The battle was noted as the first of a series of setbacks that ended in the eventual collapse of the British effort to hold North America.
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