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 .. . SKIRMISH AT NINETY-SIX. 41T. COLONEL HOWARD. Immediately after the battle of Camden, Gates had appointedMorgan to the command of the light troops in the South. Greeneretained him in this command, increasing his numbers to three hun-dred infantry under Colonel Howard, one hundred and seventy-fiveVirginia riflemen, and seventy of Colonel Washingtons light dra-goons. With this force
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 .. . SKIRMISH AT NINETY-SIX. 41T. COLONEL HOWARD. Immediately after the battle of Camden, Gates had appointedMorgan to the command of the light troops in the South. Greeneretained him in this command, increasing his numbers to three hun-dred infantry under Colonel Howard, one hundred and seventy-fiveVirginia riflemen, and seventy of Colonel Washingtons light dra-goons. With this force Morgan posted himself west of the the same time Marion was watching the Tories, near Charleston,Georgetown, and other posts. On the 27th of December, 1780,Morgan detached Colonel Washington with his dragoons and abouttwo hundred militia to the neighbourhood of Ninety-Six, where, sur-prising a body of Tories, he killed one hundred and fifty of theirnumber, and captured forty, with a large number of horses. Soonafter Morgan was joined by two hundred and sixty militia, underColonel Pickens and Major McDowell. Immediately after having been joined by General Leslie, LordCornwallis determined to drive Morgan from his post on the Wat
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