The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . With the coming inof the year 17S1, Amer-ican prospects began tobrighten. Greene hadtaken command of whatwas left of the ruinedarm)- at the South,which he immediatelyrecruited and improved by strictdiscipline. At the battleof the Cowpens, fought inSouth Carolina in January,1781, a detachment underMorgan defeated a British force underTarleton. Greene skillfully retreated fortwo hundred miles across North Caro-lina to the border of Virginia, followedby Cornwallis. When Cornwallis movnlto Hillsboro, Greene, re-enforc

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The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . With the coming inof the year 17S1, Amer-ican prospects began tobrighten. Greene hadtaken command of whatwas left of the ruinedarm)- at the South,which he immediatelyrecruited and improved by strictdiscipline. At the battleof the Cowpens, fought inSouth Carolina in January,1781, a detachment underMorgan defeated a British force underTarleton. Greene skillfully retreated fortwo hundred miles across North Caro-lina to the border of Virginia, followedby Cornwallis. When Cornwallis movnlto Hillsboro, Greene, re-enforced, againmarched southward, but managed toavoid a conflict until he had gathered new troops. Inthe severe battle at Guilford Court-House, Cornwallisdrove the Americans from the held at the closeof a hard-fought struggle, but thevictory was hardly better thana defeat, for his arm}- was so badlvshattered that he was forced to begina prompt retreat to the sea-coast,leaving his wounded in the hands ofthe pursuing Americans. The sceneof this battle is now called Greens-boro, in ho

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