By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War had dragged on for almost six years and the outcome still hung in the balance. When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his invasion of North Carolina in early 1781, his objective was to destroy General Nathaniel Greene’s American army. At Guilford Courthouse on 15 March 1781 the two armies met. In a desperately hard-fought battle the small but professional British army succeeded in fighting its way through three separate lines of American troops – but at a dreadful cost. Cornwallis lost over a quarter of his command. When news of the ‘victory’ reached Britain, a politician remarked; ‘Another such victory would ruin the British army’.
Osprey Campaign 109 - Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory
Издательство: Osprey
Author: Angus Konstam
Illustrator: Adam Hook
Год издания: June 2002
Страниц: 96 pages
ISBN: 9781841764115
Язык: english
Формат: PDF - rar
Размер: 40.9 mb
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