ARP285 Hobkirk Hill

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In May, 1781, after the British army under General Cornwallis retreats to the coast of North Carolina. General Greene's Continentals, supported by local militia attack British outposts in South Carolina at Fort Watson and Fort Motte, and due battle with the British under Lord Rawdon at Hobkirk Hill. 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: William Washington, American Light Dragoon: A Continental Cavalry Leader in the War of Independence, by Daniel Murphy. Online Recommendation of the Week: Colonel John Gunby of the Maryland line: being some account of his contribution to American liberty, by A.A. Gunby: https://archive.org/details/coloneljohngunby00gunb 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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0:49.0	This week episode 285, Hob Kirk Hill. We last left General Nathaniel Green and the Southern Army at the Battle of Guilford
0:57.2	courthouse in North Carolina in March 1781. After the battle Green had to decide what to do next. Although he
1:06.4	technically lost the battle by withdrawing from the field, he had inflicted a
1:10.6	grievous wound on General Cornwallis's British Army by taking so many British casualties.
1:17.2	General Cornwallis retreated eastward with his army to Wilmington, North Carolina.
1:22.0	At first, green shadowed Cornwallis, but as the British got
1:25.8	closer to the coast Green knew he was not going to pick a fight where the Army
1:30.4	had a backup from the British Navy. He would only fight the British on
1:34.8	ground that he chose. The North Carolina militia that was with Green would see its
1:40.3	enlistments end at the end of March. The men needed to get home and begin their planting
1:45.7	season and were not inclined to stick it out with green. With that, Green's army shrank back to mostly its core of continentals.
1:54.9	Green decided to leave North Carolina again, this time moving southward to South
2:00.1	Carolina. If he could get Cornwallis to follow him, he could draw the British out of North
2:05.8	Carolina and back further south. That would be a strategic victory for the Continental's.
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