At the latter place Jefferson, governor of the state, barely escaped capture by Tarleton’s men. Virginia at the moment presented a clear field to the British, and they overran the state as far north as Fredericksburg and west to Charlottesville. There he found British detachments, 2000 strong, composed of troops whom Clinton had sent down separately under Generals Virginia campaign.Benedict Arnold and William Phillips to establish a base in the Chesapeake, as a diversion in favour of the operations of Cornwallis in the Carolinas.

Leaving Wilmington, N.C., on the 25th of April 1781, he reached Petersburg on the 20th of May. On the American side, Greene was hailed as the deliverer of that section.Ĭornwallis, meantime, pursued his Virginia project. Rawdon found himself unable with his diminishing force to cover the country beyond Charleston and he fell back to that place, leaving the situation in the south as it had been in the early part of 1780. They fell upon isolated British posts established to protect the Loyalist population, and generally captured or broke them up. Better success attended the American partisan operations directed by Greene and conducted by Marion, Sumter, Andrew Pickens, Henry Lee and William Washington. The British lost about 1000, one-half of whom were prisoners. In the first part of the action Greene Eutaw Springs.was successful after a desperate conflict in the pursuit, however, the Americans failed to dislodge the British from a stone house which they held, and their severe loss in both engagements was over 500 men. And finally on the 8th of September he fought the last battle of the war in the lower southern states at Eutaw Springs, S.C.

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