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The website Documentary History of the Battle of Camden, 16 August 1780 Archived 9 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine details on its Officer Casualties at Camden Archived 2010-10-15 at the Wayback Machine page the fates of 48 Continental officers at Camden: 5 were killed, 4 died of wounds, 4 were wounded without being captured, 11 were ...
The Camden Battlefield is the site of the Battle of Camden on 16 August 1780, a British victory by General Charles Cornwallis over a mixed force of Continental Army regulars and state militia forces led by General Horatio Gates.
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General Clinton turned over British operations in the South to Lord Cornwallis. The Continental Congress dispatched General Horatio Gates, the victor of Saratoga, to the South with a new army, but Gates promptly suffered one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history at the Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780). Cornwallis prepared to invade ...
The location of the principal Battle of Camden is nine miles (14 km) north of the site, while several other skirmishes occurred within 20 miles (32 km) of the town. Between the summers of 1780 and 1781, the British were able to claim victory in many of these assaults, but with high casualty rates.
Fourteen Revolutionary War soldiers from the Battle of Camden will be laid to rest in a ceremony involving Apache helicopters, Humvees and an honor guard. They died in SC fighting for American ...
Some units of the regiment fought at the Siege of Charleston in the spring of 1780. [3] When General Johann de Kalb was sent south in 1780, Carrington accompanied his division with three artillery companies. Harrison arrived and assumed command, due to his superior rank. [6] At the Battle of Camden on 16 August 1780, Harrison directed six ...
Cornwallis moved forces to Camden from Charleston, and on August 16 inflicted an embarrassing defeat on Gates at the Battle of Camden. The relatively untried Continentals in Gates' army were routed, and suffered heavy casualties. [59] This served to keep South Carolina clear of Continental forces, and was a blow to rebel morale. [60]