"Downright Fighting"

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Thomas J. Fleming. "Downright Fighting"

"Downright Fighting"

Table of Contents

The Anatomy of Victory

1

Daniel Morgan, Frontiersman

The War in the South

2

Banastre Tarleton, Gentleman

3

4

Arms and Tactics

5

6

Tarleton’s Legion

John Eager Howard, Citizen-soldier

7

Morgan’s Army

8

9

Stages of the Battle

How to read these battle diagrams

Washington and Tarleton Duel

10

Part 2 Cowpens and the War in the South. A Guide to the Battlefield and Related Sites

Cowpens Battleground

The Road to Yorktown

Savannah 1778-79

Charleston 1780

Waxhaws 1780

Camden 1780

Kings Mountain 1780

Guilford Courthouse 1781

Ninety Six 1781

Eutaw Springs 1781

For Further Reading

Index

Credits

National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior

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Thomas J. Fleming

The Story of Cowpens

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The British set up forts, garrisoned by regulars and loyalists, in various districts of South Carolina and told the people if they swore an oath of allegiance to the king and promised to lay down their weapons, they would be protected and forgiven for any and all previous acts of rebellion. Thousands of men accepted this offer and dropped out of the war.

But some South Carolinians refused to submit to royal authority. Many of them were Presbyterians, who feared that their freedom to worship would be taken away from them or that they would be deprived of the right to vote, as Presbyterians were in England. Others were animated by a fundamental suspicion of British intentions toward America. They believed there was a British plot to force Americans to pay unjust taxes to enable England’s aristocratic politicians and their followers to live in luxury.

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