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Eutaw Springs (1781)(121 total words in this text)(3138 Reads)  War: American Revolution Date: 8 Sep 1781 Location: Eutaw Springs, South Carolina Outcome: British marginal victory Principal Commanders: American: Nathanael Greene British: Alexander Stewart Overview: General Nathanael Greene and 2,200 men marched towards the British forces at Orangeburg, South Carolina, led by Lt. Colonel Alexander Stewart. The British force of 2,000 men moved east to Eutaw Springs. On September 8, General Greene attacked. The Americans succeeded in forcing the British to retreat, however, they stopped to loot the British camp which allowed the British to reform. The British counter-attacked and the Americans retreated. |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
