Camden

General Gates took command of the Southern Department on July 25, 1780, and immediately marched its main army 120 miles towards the British supply base at Camden. Gate’s army was poorly equipped and fed. In an exhausted state, it consisted …

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General Gates took command of the Southern Department on July 25, 1780, and immediately marched its main army 120 miles towards the British supply base at Camden. Gate’s army was poorly equipped and fed. In an exhausted state, it consisted of about 3,000 men fit for duty of which two thirds were recently joined militia. General Cornwallis’s army located at Camden consisted of about 2,100 men ready for duty, mostly regulars with some veteran Tory units such as Tarleton’s Legion.

Camden, South Carolina

The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, South Carolina, thus strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.

Wikipedia: Battle of Camden

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