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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
extended his mounted riflemen on the wings, and charged them in front with his own cavalry. The tories fled without resistance, losing one hundred and fifty killed and wounded, and about forty who were taken prisoners. Cornwallis, who, when joined by the reenforce-ment sent from New York under Leslie, could advance with thirty-five hundred fighting men, Tarleton's Campaigns, 242 and 210. was impatient of the successes of Morgan, and resolved to intercept his retreat. On the second of January, 1781, he 1781. Jan. 2. ordered Tarleton with his detachment to pass Broad river, and to push him to the utmost. No time, wrote he, is to be lost. Ibid., 214. Tarleton answered by promising either to destroy Morgan's corps, or push it before him over Broad river towards King's Mountain; and he wished the main army to advance so as to be ready to capture the fugitives. I feel bold in offering my opinion, he wrote, as it flows from well-founded inquiry concerning the enemy's designs.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
Chapter 25: Campaign in Virginia. 1781. Clinton had himself resolved to hold a station in Chap. XXV.} 1781. Jan. 2. the Chesapeake Bay, and on the second of January, 1781, Arnold, with sixteen hundred men, appeared by his order in the James river. The generous state had sent its best troops and arms to the southern army. Nelson had received timely orders from Governor Jefferson to call out the militia of the low country; but, in the region of planters with slaves, there were not freemen enough at hand to meet the invaders; and Steuben, thinking Petersburg the object of attack, kept his small force on the south side of the river. Arnold offered to spare Richmond if he might unmolested carry off its stores of tobacco; the proposal being rejected with scorn, on the fifth 5. and sixth, all its houses and stores, public and private, 6. were set on fire. In the hope of capturing Arnold and his corps, Washington detached Lafayette with about twelve hundred rank and file to