The Battle Camden

On the night of august fifteenth, 17 80, both corn wallace and gates put their armies in motion. Gates was still under the impression he was on his way to envelop a much smaller british force inside the city. He had no idea that he was about to run smack into a british army roughly the same size as his own. With this strategic blunder in place, gates then started making tactical blunders. Then when gates spied those best regular troops cornwallis futzing around and still forming up,. He ordered the virginia militia to advance. Except the movements that gates spied were not the british forming up at all, but the b