The Battle of Cowpens

Tarleton led his men up in a conventional line on a frontal assault of morgan's position at the cowpens. The militiamen did their job, firing two volleys into the british and then falling back. After an hour of fighting, they lost a hundred dead, another 200 wounded and over 800 captured. Tarleton himself managed to just barely get away and bring to cornwallis the thoroughly unhappy news that most of their best troops had just been captured. Cornwallis immediately took off in pursuit of morgan, but his ligence network was by now in total collapse,. He set off down the wrong road in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, nathaniel green got