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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene, Nathanael 1742- (search)
eene and his army remained on the Santee Hills until late in the fall, his partisan corps, led by Marion, Sumter, Lee, and others, were driving the British forces from post to post, in the low country, and smiting Tory bands in every direction. The British finally evacuated all their interior stations and retired to Charleston, pursued almost to the edge of the city by the partisan troops. The main army occupied a position between General Greene crossing the River Dan. that city and Jacksonboro, where the South Carolina legislature had resumed its sessions. Greene had failed to win victories in battle, but had fully accomplished the object of his campaign— namely, to liberate the Carolinas and Georgia from British rule. In the course of nine months he had recovered the three Southern States, and at the close of 1781 he had all the British troops below Virginia hemmed within the cities of Charleston and Savannah. After the disaster at the Cowpens, Cornwallis placed his forc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
he State......April, 1781 Battle of Hobkirk's Hill; Americans under General Greene retreat before an attack of the British under Lord Francis Rawdon......April 25, 1781 British evacuate Fort Ninety-six......June 21, 1781 Indecisive battle between General Greene and Colonel Stuart at Eutaw Springs, each claiming a victory......Sept. 8, 1781 Governor Rutledge issues a proclamation offering pardon to the Tories in South Carolina......Sept. 27, 1781 General Assembly convenes at Jacksonboro on the Edisto River, January, elects John Matthews governor, and passes laws for confiscating the estates of Tories......February, 1782 British evacuate Charleston......Dec. 14, 1782 Charleston (hitherto Charlestown) incorporated......1784 South Carolina relinquishes to Georgia her claim to a tract of land lying between the Altamaha and St. Mary's rivers......1787 South Carolina cedes to the United States government her claim to a strip of land 12 miles wide west of a line f