Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford CourthouseUniv of North Carolina Press, 2009. 3. 15. - 320페이지 On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina, and identify where individuals stood on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they could have seen, thus producing a new bottom-up story of the engagement. |
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2 From the Dan to Guilford Courthouse | 37 |
3 Greenes Army | 52 |
4 The British Army Advances | 79 |
5 The First Line | 100 |
6 The Second Line | 117 |
7 The Battle within a Battle | 129 |
Epilogue | 214 |
Order of Battle | 219 |
Battle Casualties | 223 |
Postwar Location of Pensioners by State of Service | 227 |
Glossary | 229 |
A Note on Sources | 235 |
Notes | 239 |
Bibliography | 269 |
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