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The militia's fire slowed the British advance, which stalled when the redcoats encountered the line of Continental. Historians have typically told the story of Cowpens from the top down and emphasized General Daniel Morgan's brilliance in positioning militia skirmishers ahead of a line of Continental regulars. Babits's exhaustively researched, tightly written account of the battle would deserve the attention of everyone interested in the history of the Revolutionary War. This may be so but even if it were not, Lawrence E.
Because the engagement goaded Charles, earl Cornwallis, to seek at all costs to destroy the southern Continental Army of Nathanael Greene, some have argued that Cowpens was a decisive moment in the war as a whole. $34.95.ĪT the battle of Cowpens, 17 January 1781, the Continental Army overcame seemingly insurmountable shortages of men and supplies to rout a superbly disciplined, wellequipped British enemy. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens.
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