A history of the United States for schools . William Washington, a distant cousinof the commander-in-chief; and Henry Lee, familiarlyknown as Light-horse Harry, father of the famousConfederate general, Robert Edward Lee. The most famous British commander of light-armedtroops was Banastre Tarleton, On the 17th of January,1781, in the battle of the Cowpens, Tarleton was de-feated by Morgan. It was piece of only 900 men, in open field Morgan surroundedand nearly annihilateda superior force. The r^ British lost 230 in killedand wounded, 600 prison-ers, and all their
A history of the United States for schools . William Washington, a distant cousinof the commander-in-chief; and Henry Lee, familiarlyknown as Light-horse Harry, father of the famousConfederate general, Robert Edward Lee. The most famous British commander of light-armedtroops was Banastre Tarleton, On the 17th of January,1781, in the battle of the Cowpens, Tarleton was de-feated by Morgan. It was piece of only 900 men, in open field Morgan surroundedand nearly annihilateda superior force. The r^ British lost 230 in killedand wounded, 600 prison-ers, and all their escaped with270 men. The Ameri-cans lost twelve killedand sixty-one wounded. This was the preludeto a game of strategy inwhich Greene led Corn-wallis on a chase acrossNorth Carolina, and gave him battle at Guilford, on March 15. At nightfall, theBritish held the field, but were so badly cut a game ofup that they presently withdrew into Virginia, ^?^^^gy-while Greene returned to South Carelina. His next1 After a sketch by DANIEL 240 THE REVOLUTION. Ch. XI. two battles—Hobkirks Hill, April 25, and EutawSprings, September 8 — were not victories, but in eachcase he gained the object for which the battle wasfought. Between those two dates he had cleared theBritish out of South Carolina, except in Charleston,where they remained shut up under cover of their ships. 100. The Sur-render of Corn-wallis. Corn- wallis, in Virginia,was reinforced,and had a littlecampaign againstLafayette. At theend of July, Corn-wallis was at York-town with 7,000men. Up to thistime the Britishhad always beensafe at the watersedge, because theycontrolled the all this was tobe changed by the arrival of a great French fleet com-manded by Count de Grasse. In August, Washingtonlearned that he could have the aid of this fleet on the„, ,. Virginia coast, and at once he moved with Washing- ° tons skill- 6,000 men (4,000 of them Frenchmen underpan. Count Rochambeau) from the
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