Author: Lawrence E. Babits
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: cowpens, battle, whipping, devil
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2001-02-26
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 080784926X
ISBN-13: 9780807849262

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 accou

Author: Burke Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: campaign, courthouse, guilford, cowpens
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812218329
ISBN-13: 9780812218329

On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover’s camp on the old Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis’s cavalry. Although Tarleton fled the battlefield to avoid capture, the American victory effectively destroyed the light corps of the British army in the South. Stung by the loss, Cornwallis ordered a deliberate and dogged chase of the American rebels, a campaign that meandered throug