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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 ...
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.
Battle of Lenud's Ferry: May 6, 1780: South Carolina: British victory Bird's invasion of Kentucky: May 25-August 4, 1780: Virginia: British victory Battle of St. Louis: May 25, 1780: Louisiana (present-day Missouri) Patriot-Spanish victory Battle of Waxhaws: May 29, 1780: South Carolina: British victory Battle of Connecticut Farms: June 7, 1780 ...
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 second unit became the Virginia Continental Artillery Company which was formed in the summer of 1776 at Williamsburg. It joined Harrison's Regiment on 27 November. [3] The Virginia artillery played an active role during the Battle of Gwynn's Island in July 1776. The only casualty was Arundel, who was killed when his experimental mortar burst.
Poerterfield was promoted to Captain on August 16, 1779, and taken prisoner at Charleston, South Carolina on May 12, 1780. [2] Upon his furlough, he informed Virginia's governor that his elder brother, Lt. Col. Charles Porterfield, had died on the way to Charleston, as a result of the wound he suffered at the Battle of Camden.
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.
By December 1780, the American Revolutionary War's North American theatres had reached a critical point. The Continental Army had suffered major defeats earlier in the year, with its southern armies either captured or dispersed in the loss of Charleston and the Battle of Camden in the south, while the armies of George Washington and the British commander-in-chief for North America, Sir Henry ...