While encamped in the forks of the…

March 1781 CE

While encamped in the forks of the Deep River, Cornwallis is informed on March 14, 1781, that Greene is encamped at the Guilford Court House.

With him is a body of North Carolina militia, plus reinforcements from Virginia, consisting of three thousand Virginia militia, a Virginia State regiment, a corps of Virginian eighteen-month men and recruits for the Maryland Line, totaling between four thousand and five thousand men.

Cornwallis decides to give battle, though he has only nineteen hundred men at his disposal.

He detaches his baggage train, one hundred infantry and twenty cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, to Bell's Mills further down the Deep River.

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Greensboro Guilford North Carolina United States View →

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis View → Henry Lee III View → Nathanael Greene View →

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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → British people View → Patriots (American Revolution) View → Loyalists (American Revolution) View → Americans View → United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA) View →

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American Revolution View → American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence View → American Revolutionary War, Southern theater of the View → Guilford Court House, Battle of View →

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