A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens

✍ Scribed by Babits, Lawrence Edward

• Book ID: 100546941
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 762 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Chapel Hill
• ISBN: 080784926X

✦ Synopsis

The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command of Banastre Tarleton. The victory at Cowpens helped put the British army on the road to the Yorktown surrender and, ultimately, cleared the way for American independence.
Here, Lawrence Babits provides a brand-new interpretation of this pivotal South Carolina battle. Whereas previous accounts relied on often inaccurate histories and a small sampling of participant narratives, Babits uses veterans' sworn pension statements, long-forgotten published accounts, and a thorough knowledge of weaponry, tactics, and the art of moving men across the landscape. He identifies where individuals were on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they saw—creating an absorbing...
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✦ Subjects

Cowpens, Bataille de (1781)