The battle of Guilford courthouse : a most desperate engagement / John R. Maass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maass, John R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guilford Courthouse, Battle of, N.C., 1781.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2020]

Summary:

Around the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis's British army in a bitter two-hour battle of the Revolutionary War. The frightful contest at Guilford was a severe conflict in which troops made repeated use of their flintlock muskets, steel bayonets and dragoon swords in hand-to-hand fighting that killed and wounded about eight hundred men. Historian John R. Maass recounts the bloody battle and the grueling campaign in the South that led up to it, a crucial event on the road to American independence.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781439669204

1439669201