The Battle of Cowpens

"In South Carolina, where the grass is springing through every month of winter, cattle in those days grazed all year round; never housed, nor fed by hand of man, but driven from time to time into "cowpens", where the owners gave salt to the heard and each one marked those which were his own." Two miles from such an enclosure, upon a wide plain, on 17 January 1781, Patriot Brigadier General Daniel Morgan met head on with …

…run away, the entire force sent after Morgan was now dead or captured. In sheer numbers, the British lost as many men as they had lost on the crucial day at Saratoga. An enraged Cornwallis set out after Morgan, who, without his short term militia was now outnumbered for to one. As for Tarleton, he was absolved of an responsibility for the disaster by Cornwallis. <Tab/> <Tab/>