BY: JOHN BUCHANANLAUREN CAMPBELL

The Road to Guilford Courthouse

Preface

This book is about the British campaign in 1780-1781 to regain the Carolinas back from American Rebels.

The term rebel is for the American revolutionaries.

Partisans had two meanings- to describe the light troops that trained for skirmishing

at the van or on the flanks of an army on the move. Referred to irregular fighters, also known as guerillas, a

word that first appeared in the English after the Spanish uprising against Napolean’s armies.

-1928HORATIO GATES, WAS KNOWN AS A “SNOB OF THE FIRST WATER.”-1727-1806 , HE WAS BORN IN ENGLAND TO A SERVANT COUPLE.-1752 GATES AND COLONEL EDWARD CORNWALLIS, SERVED AS AIDE-DE -CAMP TO TWO SUCCESSORS AND MET HIS FUTURE WIFE, ELIZABETH PHILLIPS. -HE WAS KNOWN AS “A MAN OF MODEST ABILITIES”

A Hero Takes Charge

The Battle of Sullivan’s Island

The War of the Revolutions was over for about a year when the Battle of Sullivan’s Island took place in Charleston Harbor.

This battle took place four years before the British made an effort to move to the South.

At this battle, the British had been “bloodied by Yankee militia during their retreat from Lexington and Concord in April 1775.

Guilford Courthouse: “Long, Obstinate, and Bloody”

The day of the Guilford Courthouse, a man named Nathanael Greene had about 4,440 troop.

Within these troops, 1,762 were Continentals.He deployed in three lines

-one, were his least reliable troops, 1,000 North Carolina militia and two, regiments commanded by Brigadier General John Butler as well as General Thomas Eaton.

Nathanael spoke of liberty and the cause and their honor, and asked only of his troops to volley twive, then they could retire.