An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 422 CAMPAT-JX OF 17^ COL0K3L :^A3HIll3rOH of pos:s wnich they there occupied. As a preparatory movementLee was sent forward to join Marion, which be did at the combined forces attacked Fort Watson, the most important posibelonging to the British in South Carolina. It was taken by con-structing near it an immense tower, from the top of which the Ame-rican riflemen p
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . 422 CAMPAT-JX OF 17^ COL0K3L :^A3HIll3rOH of pos:s wnich they there occupied. As a preparatory movementLee was sent forward to join Marion, which be did at the combined forces attacked Fort Watson, the most important posibelonging to the British in South Carolina. It was taken by con-structing near it an immense tower, from the top of which the Ame-rican riflemen picked off the garrison at such a rate that on the 2l3dthey surrendered. On the 5th of April. Greene marched for Camden, which hereached on the 24th, and took up a position on Hobkirks Hill. Hi?force was eleven hundred and eighty men, of whom two hundredand fifty were militia. That of the British garrison, under LordRawdon, was about nine hundred. The American general offeredbattle, which was accepted [April 151. Greenes dispositions wereniade in his usual masterly manner ; and in the commencement ofthe action all the chances of victory were with him. But, suddenly,and without any apparent cause, the militia began a disorderly re-tre
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