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Haw River (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
recrossed the river. They were followed on the twenty-first by the light troops, 21. and on the twenty-second by Greene with the rest of 22. his army, including a re-enforcement of six hundred militia-men of Virginia. The loyalists of North Carolina, inferring from the proclamation of Cornwallis that he was in peaceable possession of the country, rose in such numbers that seven independent companies were formed in one day; and Tarleton with the British legion was detached across the Haw river for their protection. By the order of Greene, Pickens, who had collected between three and four hundred militia, and Lee formed a junction and moved against both parties. Missing Tarleton, they fell in with three hundred royalists, under Colonel Pyle, and routed them with dreadful carnage. Tarleton, who was refreshing his legion about a mile from the scene of action, hurried back to Hillsborough, and all royalists who were on their way to join the king's standard returned home. Cornwal
Wilkes (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
gan, writing to Huger: I am not without hopes of ruining Lord Cornwallis if he persists in his mad scheme of pushing through the Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Jan. 30. country. Here is a fine field and great glory ahead. Johnson's Greene, i. 104. On the same day the famous Colonel William Campbell was asked to bring without loss of time a thousand good volunteers from over the mountains. A like letter was addressed to Shelby, though without effect. To the officers commanding in the counties of Wilkes and Surry, Greene said: If you repair to arms, Lord Cornwallis must be inevitably ruined. He called upon Sumpter, as soon as his recovery should permit, to take the field at the head of the South Carolina militia; he gave orders to General Pickens to raise as many troops as he could in the district of Augusta and Ninety-Six, and hang on the rear of the enemy; and he sought out powerful horses and skilful riders to strengthen the cavalry of Washington. Meantime parties sent out by Morgan
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
Defensive measures would be certain ruin to the affairs of Britain in the southern colonies. Instead of remaining in South Carolina, as he should have done, he without orders and on his own responsibility persisted in his original plan of striking a Morgan's camp at Sherrald's ford on the Catawba. Leaving Lord Rawdon with a considerable body of troops to defend South Carolina, Cornwallis, having formed a junction with the corps under Leslie, began his long march, avoiding the lower roads, thrmy at Ram- 25. sower's mill, on the south fork of the Catawba. Here he resolved to give up his communications with South Carolina and to turn his army into light troops. Two days he devoted to destroying superfluous baggage and all wagons except ice had almost expired, seized the occasion to return home. The battle of King's Mountain drove Cornwallis back into South Carolina; the defeat at the Cowpens made his second invasion of North Carolina a desperate enterprise; the battle at Guilford
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
k behind the brow of the hill to load, and return to renew their well-directed fire. In dislodging some Americans from their post on a woody height, the ranks of the first battalion of the guards were thinned and many of their officers fell. Stedman, II. 339, 340. The brigade did not retreat till the British drew near enough to charge with the bayonet. The British army though suffering from fatigue and weakened by heavy losses, pressed forward to the third American line, where Greene himiment of Marylanders, led by Gunby and seconded by Howard, engaged with their bayonets. Stewart fell under a blow from Captain Smith; and the British party was driven back with great slaughter and the loss of the cannon which they had taken. Stedman, II. 340. The first battalion of the guards, although already crippled, advanced against the Americans. A severe American fire on its front and flanks completely broke its ranks. At this moment du Puy's Hessian regiment, which had thus far suf
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
s. Clinton, Cornwallis, 50. This display of the magnanimity of Virginia was due to its great advisers. Your state, wrote Washington to Jefferson, its governor, will experience more molestation in future; but the evils from these predatory incursions are not to be compared to the injury of the common cause. I am persuaded the attention to your immediate safety will not divert you from the measures intended to re-enforce the southern army. The late accession of force makes the enemy in Carolina too formidable to be resisted without powerful succors from Virginia. And he gave orders to Steuben: Make the defence of the state as little as possible interfere with the measures for succoring General Greene. Everything is to be apprehended if he is not powerfully supported from Virginia. Jefferson made the advice of Washington his rule of conduct, though accused in his own state of doing too much for the Carolinas. On the third day after the battle, Greene wrote to Washington: Virgin
Dan River (United States) (search for this): chapter 24
having done their duty to their country. They all were ready to cross the Dan once more and attack. After giving his troops a day's rest, Cornwallis moved by easy marches to Hillsborough, where on Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Feb. 20. the twentieth he invited by proclamation all loyal subjects in North Carolina to repair to the royal standard which he erected, being himself ready to concur with them in re-establishing the government of the king. No sooner had the British left the banks of the Dan, than Lee's legion recrossed the river. They were followed on the twenty-first by the light troops, 21. and on the twenty-second by Greene with the rest of 22. his army, including a re-enforcement of six hundred militia-men of Virginia. The loyalists of North Carolina, inferring from the proclamation of Cornwallis that he was in peaceable possession of the country, rose in such numbers that seven independent companies were formed in one day; and Tarleton with the British legion was deta
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
original plan of striking at the heart of North Carolina, establishing there a royal government, ant, and was disputed by General Davidson of North Carolina with three hundred militia. By forsaking ited by proclamation all loyal subjects in North Carolina to repair to the royal standard which he elitia-men of Virginia. The loyalists of North Carolina, inferring from the proclamation of CornwaVirginia under General Lawson, by two from North Carolina under Butler and Eaton, and by four hundrea defeat, and put an end to their power in North Carolina, no praise is too great for the conduct ofrginia militia and six hundred of those of North Carolina, whose time of service had almost expired,at the Cowpens made his second invasion of North Carolina a desperate enterprise; the battle at Guil broken up. But it taught the loyalists of North Carolina that they could put no trust in the promisr the protection of the British king. All North Carolina, except Wilmington, was left to the Americ
Surry county (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
g to Huger: I am not without hopes of ruining Lord Cornwallis if he persists in his mad scheme of pushing through the Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Jan. 30. country. Here is a fine field and great glory ahead. Johnson's Greene, i. 104. On the same day the famous Colonel William Campbell was asked to bring without loss of time a thousand good volunteers from over the mountains. A like letter was addressed to Shelby, though without effect. To the officers commanding in the counties of Wilkes and Surry, Greene said: If you repair to arms, Lord Cornwallis must be inevitably ruined. He called upon Sumpter, as soon as his recovery should permit, to take the field at the head of the South Carolina militia; he gave orders to General Pickens to raise as many troops as he could in the district of Augusta and Ninety-Six, and hang on the rear of the enemy; and he sought out powerful horses and skilful riders to strengthen the cavalry of Washington. Meantime parties sent out by Morgan brought in
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
ng to inveterate rebels. Commis. Clinton and Cornwallis, 32. To compel Greene to accept battle, Cornwallis on the twenty-seventh moved his whole force in two 27. columns across the Haw, and encamped near Alle- Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Feb. 27. mance creek. For seven days, Greene lay within ten miles of the British camp, but baffled his enemy by taking a new position every night. No fear of censure could hurry his determined mind. He waited till in March he was joined by the south-west Virginia March. militia under William Campbell, by another brigade of militia from Virginia under General Lawson, by two from North Carolina under Butler and Eaton, and by four hundred regulars raised for eighteen months. Then on the tenth, while Cornwallis was on 10. his march to New Garden or the Quaker meetinghouse, he prepared to hazard an engagement. On the fourteenth, he encamped near Guilford court- 14. house, within eight miles of Cornwallis. At dawn of day on the fifteenth, Cornwa
Huntsville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
t infantry, continuing their march, with the British at their heels, crossed the Yadkin at the Trading ford, Greene Ms. partly on flats and partly by fording, during the latter part of the time in a heavy rain. After the Americans were safe beyond the river and Morgan had secured all water craft on its south side, it rose too high to be forded. To the Americans it seemed that Providence was their ally. Cornwallis was forced to lose two days in ascending the Yadkin to the so-called Shallow ford, where he 7. 9. crossed on the seventh. On the night of the ninth he encamped near the Moravian settlement of Salem, where, upon the very border of the wilderness, gentle and humble and hospitable emigrants, bound by their faith never to take up arms, had chosen their abodes, and for their sole defence had raised the symbol of the triumphant Lamb. Among them equality reigned. No one, then or thereafter, was held in bondage. There were no poor, and none marked from others by their app
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