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Fort Motte (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
. The connection of Camden with Charleston being thus broken, the post became untenable. On the tenth of May, after destroying all public buildings May 10. and stores and many private houses, the British abandoned it, and they never held it again. On the eleventh, the post at Orangeburgh, held by sixty British 11. militia and twelve regulars, surrendered to Sumpter. Chap. XXIV.} 1781. May 11. Meantime Rawdon marched down the Santee on the north side, anxious to save the garrison of Fort Motte, to which Marion had laid siege. To hasten its surrender, Rebecca Motte, the owner of the house in which they were quartered, on the twelfth brought 12. into camp a bow and a bundle of Indian arrows; and when the arrows had carried fire to her own abode, the garrison of a hundred and sixty-five men surrendered. Two days later, the British evacuated their 14. post at Nelson's ferry. On the fifteenth, Fort Granby 15. with three hundred and fifty-two men surrendered by capitulation. Ge
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 25
ntly and with little loss; in the second, he sustained a defeat, with the death or capture of many of his bravest men. C'est une grande science de savoir s'arreter à temps. Vergennes to Lafayette, 1 Oct., 1781, commenting on the events of the day. In the two engagements, the Americans lost in killed, wounded, and missing, five hundred and fifty-four men; they took five hundred prisoners, including the wounded; and the total loss of the British approached one thousand. The cause of the United States was the cause of Ireland. Among the fruits of the battles of the former was the recovery for the latter of her equal rights in trade and legislation. Yet such is the sad complication in human affairs that the people who of all others should have been found taking part with America sent some of their best troops and their ablest men to take the field against the defenders of their own rights. Irishmen fought in the British ranks at Eutaw. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who received on this d
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
ter 24: The southern campaign. Greene in South Carolina. 1781. on the seventh of April, Cornwallis to Charleston by water, to retain possession of South Carolina; but such a movement would have published to thne determined to carry the war immediately into South Carolina. Dismissing those of the militia whose time wa his name. The possession of the interior of South Carolina depended on the posts at Camden and Ninety-Six hed Monk's corner. The north-western part of South Carolina was thus recovered, but the British still held of the legion, the state troops, and militia of South Carolina to compel the evacuation of Orangeburgh by striafter the departure of Rawdon there remained in South Carolina no British officer who would have repeated the battalions from North Carolina, and of one from South Carolina on each wing, commanded respectively by Marion tates, and in breaking up every British post in South Carolina outside of Charleston; having had, like the com
Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
n, which was a mile and a half distant, was protected by a forest and thick shrubbery. On the twenty-eighth, the men, having been under 28. arms from daylight, were dismissed to receive provisions and prepare their morning repast. The horses were unsaddled and feeding; Greene was at breakfast. By keeping close to the swamp, Rawdon, with about nine hundred men, gained the left of the Americans, in some measure by surprise, After viewing the British works about Camden, I set out for Charlotte. On my way, two miles from town, I examined the ground on which General Greene and Lord Rawdon had their action. The ground had but just been taken by the former, was well chosen, but he not well established in it before he was attacked, which, by capturing a vedette, was in some measure by surprise.—Washington's Diary, Thursday, 26 May, 1790. and opened a fire upon their pickets. The good discipline which Greene had introduced now stood him in stead. About two hundred and fifty North
Camden, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
awaited him. He could not move by land towards Camden without exposing his troops to the greatest chMarion, and threatened the connections between Camden and Charleston; Sumpter, with three small regiate, had in charge to hold the country between Camden and Ninety-Six, and Pickens with the western me from the strong and well-garrisoned works of Camden. In the hope of intercepting a party whom Raft by an impassable swamp. The ground towards Camden, which was a mile and a half distant, was protrprise, After viewing the British works about Camden, I set out for Charlotte. On my way, two milewas compelled to leave the field and return to Camden; Greene saved his artillery and collected all rched against the fort on Wright's bluff below Camden, the principal post of the British on the Santhill, it capitulated. 26. The connection of Camden with Charleston being thus broken, the post be neither given him victory at Guilford, nor at Camden, nor now at Ninety-Six. But his fortitude alw[1 more...]
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
in Tarleton, 385. and Germain hastened to instruct Clinton: Lord Cornwallis's opinion entirely coincides with mine of the great importance of pushing the war on the side of Virginia with all the force that can be spared. Germain to Clinton, 6 June, 1781, in Commis. Clinton, Cornwallis, 53. In his march from Wilmington, Cornwallis met Chap. XXIV.} 1781. April. little resistance. At Halifax, his troops were let loose to commit enormities that were a disgrace to the name of man. Stedman, II. 385, note. For the place of junction with the British army in Virginia, he fixed upon Petersburg on the Appomatox. So soon as Cornwallis had escaped beyond pursuit, March 29. Greene determined to carry the war immediately into South Carolina. Dismissing those of the militia whose time was about to expire, he retained nearly eighteen hundred men, with small chances of re-enforcements or of sufficient subsistence. He knew the hazards which he was incurring; but, in case of untoward
Kingville (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
hat belonged especially to himself. The ship in which Rawdon embarked was captured by the French at sea, but his rights as a prisoner of war were Chap. XXIV.} 1781. Aug. respected. After a short rest, Greene moved his army from the hills of Santee in a roundabout way to attack the British at their post near the junction of the Wateree and Congaree. They retreated before him and halted at Eutaw springs. He continued the pursuit with so much skill that the British remained ignorant of his breaking in pieces a thousand muskets, retreated to Charleston, leaving seventy of their wounded. Resting one or two days, Greene with his troops, which were wasted not only by battle, but by disease, regained his old position on the heights of Santee. He had been in command less than nine months, and in that short time the three southern states were recovered excepting only Wilmington, Charleston, and Savannah. His career had not been marked by victories, but he always gained the object for
Eutaw (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
e close, stiff branches of the stubborn trees made the cavalry useless. Colonel Washington himself, after his glorious share in the campaign, at the last moment of this last encounter, was wounded, disabled, and taken prisoner. So there were at Eutaw two successive engagements. In the first, Greene won brilliantly and with little loss; in the second, he sustained a defeat, with the death or capture of many of his bravest men. C'est une grande science de savoir s'arreter à temps. Vergennes an affairs that the people who of all others should have been found taking part with America sent some of their best troops and their ablest men to take the field against the defenders of their own rights. Irishmen fought in the British ranks at Eutaw. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who received on this day wounds that were all but mortal, had in later years no consolation for his share in the conflict; for, said he, Chap. XXIV.} 1781. Sept. 8. I was then fighting against liberty. Occupying the
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
t, in case of untoward accidents, he believed that Washington and his other friends would do justice to his name. The possession of the interior of South Carolina depended on the posts at Camden and Ninety-Six in that state, and at Augusta in Georgia. On the sixth April 6. of April, Greene detached a force under Lee, which joined Marion, and threatened the connections between Camden and Charleston; Sumpter, with three small regiments of regular troops of the state, had in charge to hold thwith about three hundred men capitulated. One officer, obnoxious for his cruelties, fell after the surrender by an unknown hand. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, the commander, had himself hanged thirteen American prisoners, and delivered citizens of Georgia to the Cherokees to suffer death with all the exquisite tortures which savage barbarity could contrive; but on his way to Savannah an escort protected him from the inhabitants whose houses he had burned, whose Chap. XXIV.} 1781. May 22. relati
Halifax, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
erious attempt upon Virginia would be the most solid plan; Cornwallis to Germain, 18 April, 1781, in Tarleton, 385. and Germain hastened to instruct Clinton: Lord Cornwallis's opinion entirely coincides with mine of the great importance of pushing the war on the side of Virginia with all the force that can be spared. Germain to Clinton, 6 June, 1781, in Commis. Clinton, Cornwallis, 53. In his march from Wilmington, Cornwallis met Chap. XXIV.} 1781. April. little resistance. At Halifax, his troops were let loose to commit enormities that were a disgrace to the name of man. Stedman, II. 385, note. For the place of junction with the British army in Virginia, he fixed upon Petersburg on the Appomatox. So soon as Cornwallis had escaped beyond pursuit, March 29. Greene determined to carry the war immediately into South Carolina. Dismissing those of the militia whose time was about to expire, he retained nearly eighteen hundred men, with small chances of re-enforcements
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