History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0773 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse
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The idea
General Daniel Morgan decisively beat the British at Cowpens, and at Guilford Courthouse in March seventeen eighty-one the British held the field but took heavy losses.
In practice
The anchor comparing Guilford Courthouse to Bunker Hill six years earlier.
Where people slip
Greene divided his troops to wage destructive war, trading battles for the attrition of isolated British forces.
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