The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (Military) by John R. Maass
2020 | ISBN: 1467139122, 1540242382 | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
2020 | ISBN: 1467139122, 1540242382 | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
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.