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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chippewa, battle of (search)
ll had sent forward some Royal Scots, part of another regiment of regulars, a regiment of Lincoln militia, and about 300 Indians. Street's Creek Bridge in 1861, looking North. These composed the force that fought Porter. Scott crossed Street's Creek in the face of a heavy cannonade, and very soon the battle raged with fury along the entire line of both armies. Several times the British line was broken and closed up again. Finally a flank movement and a furious charge were made by Major McNeill with Colonel Campbell's 11th regiment, and a terrific fire from a corps under Major Jesup in the centre made the British line give way. It broke and fled in haste to the intrenchments below Chippewa Creek. The fugitives tore up the bridge over the creek behind them, leaving an impassable chasm between themselves and the Americans. The battle-field (opposite Navy Island) was strewn with the dead and dying. The Americans lost, in killed, wounded, and missing, 355 men; the British lost,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
North Carolina from Cowpens to the river Dan, a distance of 230 miles, pursued by British under Lord Cornwallis......February, 1781 Cornwallis issues at Hillsboro a proclamation inviting all loyal citizens to join him......Feb. 20, 1781 Battle at Guilford Court-house; the British under Cornwallis defeat the Americans under General Greene......March 15, 1781 General Assembly meets at the courthouse of Wake, where now stands the city of Raleigh......June, 1781 Tories under Col. Hector McNeill, numbering 600 men, in the early morning march into Hillsboro and capture Governor Burke and his suite and plunder the town......Sept. 13, 1781 David Fanning, a freebooter, appointed lieutenant-colonel of the royal militia in June, 1781, captures forty-four persons at Chatham Court-house while a courtmartial is in progress, July 16; besieges the garrisoned house of Col. Philip Alston, of Chatham, Aug. 8; captures forty-four Whigs under Colonel Wade, and disperses his troops at McFa