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[7] A letter from Cornwallis to Lord George Germain, dated 21 August 1780, says that his army took "about one thousand Prisoners, many of whom wounded" on August 18. [8] Of 48 Continental officers at Camden: 5 were killed, 4 died of wounds, 4 were wounded without being captured, 11 were wounded and captured and 24 were captured without being ...
Battle of Camden Historical Marker. 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.
On 22 May 1777, it was assigned to the 1st Maryland Brigade. Re-organized on 12 May 1779 to nine companies. The 1st Maryland Brigade was reassigned to the Southern Department on 5 April 1780. The regiment participated in the Philadelphia Campaign which occurred during 1777-1778 and the Southern Theater which occurred during 1775–1782.
At the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, he was taken POW and remained in British custody and imprisoned in Saint Augustine, Florida until he was released in a prisoner exchange in July 1781 and returned to service in September 1781. During his absence from duty, generals pro tempore filled in as commandants in the rank of general pro tempore.
He led that mounted force in several actions during the summer of 1780. Shortly after the Battle of Hanging Rock, Davie received word of a new army moving into South Carolina under General Horatio Gates. Gates was soundly defeated at the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780. While the Continentals fought hard, his militia largely fled without ...
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 ...
He also served in the Battle of Guilford Court House, the Second Battle of Camden and the Battle of Eutaw Springs. He assisted in the Siege of Ninety-Six and capture of the village of that name, and was also in every action and skirmish under General Nathanael Greene, in whose army he remained until the capture of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. [1]
More than 240 years after they were dumped unceremoniously in shallow graves, 14 soldiers of the Revolutionary War have received the honor of heroes in South Carolina.