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Long, obstinate, and bloody : the Battle of Guilford Courthouse / Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard

Author
Babits, Lawrence Edward
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Additional Creators
Howard, Joshua B.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction: The strategic situation -- The race to the Dan -- From the Dan to Guilford Courthouse -- Greene's army -- The British Army advances -- The first line -- The second line -- The battle within a battle -- The third line -- The aftermath -- The Guilford "crossroads" -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Order of battle -- Appendix B: Battle casualties -- Appendix C: Postwar location of pensioners by state of service -- Glossary.
Summary
On 15 March 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible. He made the fateful decision to march into Virginia, eventually leading his army to the Yorktown surrender and clearing the way for American independence. In the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence Babits and Joshua Howard--drawing from hundreds of previously u.
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ISBN
9780807887677 (electronic bk.)
0807887676 (electronic bk.)
9781469605944 (electronic bk.)
1469605945 (electronic bk.)
0807832669
9780807832660
9781469609881
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
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