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Camden

A village in South Carolina, where, on Aug. 16, 1780, about 3,600 Americans, under General Gates, were defeated by from 2,000 to 2,500 British, under Lord Cornwallis, losing 700 men, among them Baron de Kalb mortally wounded, nearly all their luggage and artillery.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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