ARP277 Battle of Cowpens

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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British Colonel Banastre Tarleton chases down General Daniel Morgan's force of Continentals and militia. Tarleton traps the Americans who cannot cross the river at Cowpens, South Carolina. The armies clash in a short but decisive battle. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Lawrence Babits. (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: Cowpens Pamphlet by Thomas Fleming (NPS): https://archive.org/details/cowpensdownright0000flem Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.8	This week, episode 277, the Battle of Calpens.
0:53.0	We last left the war in the South back in episode 274
0:57.0	when General Nathaniel Green took command of the southern army
1:01.0	at the end of 1780.
1:03.0	Green promptly divided his Army.
1:06.0	He moved his forces southeast of Charlotte, North Carolina,
1:09.0	across the South Carolina border into Cherau. He sent the other part of his army under General
1:15.3	Daniel Morgan to the southwest, also into South Carolina. The main British army
1:21.2	under General Charles Cornwallis sat in between these two forces at Winsborough, South Carolina.
1:28.0	Cornwallis had been forced out of North Carolina following the loss of the loyalist militia army at Kings Mountain.
1:35.0	Much of the British Army also fell ill with malaria, forcing them to take several months to
1:39.8	recuperate.
1:41.1	Cornwallis was awaiting the arrival of General Alexander Leslie with an army of
1:46.0	regulars to reinforce his own. Leslie had been deployed to the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, but Cornwallis requested that he bring his troops by ship to Charleston,
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