The New Complete History of the United States of America, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New Complete History of the United States of America, Vol. 7Not long after Gates' overthrow, Cornwallis began his triumphal northward march to reclaim North Carolina and unite with Leslie in Virginia, reducing that pillar of the rebellion to obedience, and thus having the whole South for a base whence to crush the northern army and provinces. But after a fortnight's harassment at the border reb els'-nest of Charlotte, King's Mountain drove him hurriedly back to. The Camden region. Calling Leslie's force to make good the losses which were draining the life-blood of his own army, and leav ing Clinton to replace Leslie with other forces, in J annary 1781 he once more set out, with Greene hurrying to cut him off from Virginia, and all his light troops lost at the Cowpens. Like all the visions of ardent loyal populations rushing into England's arms, that of North Carolina proved a dream, and Greene 011 March 15 forced him to a battle (guilford court-house) victorious indeed, but so costly that he had to abandon the State, retreat to the coast, and go on to Virginia by water with the pitiful fragment of an army. With the conjoint forces he raided that State for a while, but Clinton ordered him back to the coast. And he occupied the York peninsula to wait orders.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.