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| The Overmountain Men crept up this hill on a rainy October day in 1780, absolutely annihilating virtually the entire Loyalist contingent in Cornwallis' army. | |
| This climactic confrontation resulted in the withdrawl of the remaining British soldiery in the Carolina Backcountry into Charleston for the remainder of the war. | |
| This battle kept the British from resupplying its army in Philadephia just long enough for Washington's troops to make it safely to Valley Forge. | |
| This 1781 battle destroyed Cornwallis' left wing and sealed the legend of Daniel Morgan. | |
| Here a large force of Tory Militia mistook Light Horse Harry's dragoons as Tarleton's legion and were defeated before they could link up with Cornwallis' army at Guilford CH. | |
| Cornwallis nearly trapped an entire Continental Army under Wayne & Lafayette here, perhaps making sure Yorktown never happened! | |
| Patriot defeat here so early in the war made certain there would only be 13 rebellious colonies, not 14. | |
| Greene and Morgan both may have been captured by Corwallis at this battle, where the gallant Gen. Davidson fell in a desperate delaying action. | |
| Militia under Gen.Sumter finally stood up to Tarleton here in Nov. 1780, the Patriots learning he was NOT invincible on the field. | |
| This SC militia victory came at a crucial time after nothing but defeat since Charleton was taken. | |
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| A Patriot loss in this NC swamp and the Revolution in the South may have fizzled just as it was starting. | |
| An ill-advised Hessian expedition to flush out the Green Mtn Boys was the first in a chain of defeats leading to Burgoyne's surender at Saratoga. | |
| It was just local folks trying to protect their powder magazines from seizure. Who, that day, knew how these tiny skirmishes would change the world? | |
| Arnold's false intelligence tricked St Leger, commanding Burgoyne's entire relief force, into lifting the siege here and returning to Canada. | |
| This 1781 siege culminated in Spain taking West Florida from England, after years of repeated American defeats in trying to take the Eastern colony. | |
| The Patriot win here proved the Tories could not hold interior GA (or any backcountry this far inland) without full British Regular support. | |
| Many historians say that George Rogers Clark's success here set the stage for the Americans gaining the Old Northwest and doubling its original size by the Treaty of Paris. | |
| Col. Wm. Washington's routing of Tories so close to Ninety Six got Cornwallis' worried enough to detach Tarleton towards Morgan, thus, the end game of the war began. | |
| Whether or not Tarleton was at fault in this massacre, the result was 'Tarleton's Quarter!', the rallying cry of the backcountry Patriots for the rest of the war. | |
| If Davie and Sumter's Militia could've stayed sober and finished off the British here, the disaster at Camden may never have taken place 10 days later. | |
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