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From The Way We Lived in North Carolina Rockfish © 2003 The University of North Carolina Press Raft Swamp Beaufort Map © North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources All rights reserved. GREENE MAJOR CAMPAIGNS Elizabethtown Moores Creek Bridge Moores Creek Bridge Campaign — 1776 Guilford Courthouse British Southern Campaign (Cornwallis-Greene) — 1780-1781 MAPS BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE B Hunting N Wilmington PRINCIPAL ENGAGEMENTS 0 400 Moores Creek Bridge — February 27, 1776 — Whigs defeat Tories British troops come ashore YARDS Ramsour’s Mill — June 20, 1780 — Whigs defeat Tories at Brunswick, 1776 3 Kings Mountain — October 7, 1780 — Mountain patriots defeat British troops Cape Fear Brunswick Town Ravine Guilford Courthouse — March 15, 1781 — Climactic battle between Cornwallis Forts Burned by Creek and Greene cripples the , which then retreats to Wilmington the British, 1776 Principal engagements NOTABLE BATTLES & SKIRMISHES Alamance — May 16, 1771 — Gov. William Tryon’s Royal Militia defeats Regulators Lesser engagements between Cornwallis & Greene Colson’s Mill — July 21, 1780 — Whigs defeat Tories Engagements between Whigs & Tories A Engagements during Cornwallis’s march to Virginia 2 Charlotte — September 26, 1780 — British troops under Cornwallis capture Charlotte CORNWALLIS Shallow Ford — October 14, 1780 — Whigs defeat Tories / Cornwallis crosses Feb. 8, 1781 Cowan’s Ford — February 1, 1781 — Cornwallis crosses the Catawba River Cornwallis’s pursuit of Greene, Torrence’s Tavern — February 2, 1781 — Tarleton’s British cavalry routs American militia leading to the engagement at 1 Clapp’s Mill — March 2, 1781 — American troops withdraw after ambushing Tarleton’s cavalry Guilford Courthouse, January- March 1781, and Cornwallis’s * Cornwallis’s Horse Killed Weitzel’s Mill — March 6, 1781 — Skirmish between troops of Cornwallis and Greene retreat to Wilmington. Rockfish — August 2, 1781 — Craig’s British troops defeat North Carolina militia Hoskins Battle of Alston House — August 5, 1781 — Tories defeat Whigs Cornwallis’s march to Virginia, Guilford Elizabethtown — August 27, 1781 — Whigs defeat Tories April-May 1781. sepen Little or Cr Courthouse McPhaul’s Mill — September 1, 1781 — Tories defeat Whigs H eek Lindley’s Mill — September 13, 1781 — Whigs fail to rescue Gov. Thomas Burke from Tories Greene’s patriot army returns to March 15, 1781 Raft Swamp — October 15, 1781— Whigs defeat Tories South Carolina. British Forces A - New Market Road 1 Stages of the American Forces B - Fayetteville Road Battle