A Miniature History of the American Revolution

Joseph Graham’s description of the battle of Ramsour’s Mill is detailed and clear (cf. parts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ), but that does not mean that i...

This is the final of several posts that describes, verbatim, Joseph Graham's account of the battle of Ramsour’s Mill . The account is i...

Graham’s Description of the Battlefield Joseph Graham began his account of the battle of Ramsour’s Mill by describing the disposition of th...

Joseph Graham described for historians not only the battle of Ramsour’s Mill itself, but also the sequence of events that led up to it. A ...

As described previously , the battle of Ramsour’s Mill was seldom mentioned in surviving correspondence from the summer of 1780. Neverthele...

Despite the fact that Ramsour's Mill appears to have been a crucial American victory – even a turning point , in the southern theater – ...

In June, 1780, the British completed their conquest of South Carolina and were making preparations for an eventual invasion of North Carolin...

[Minor edits May 2, 2010] As the British overran the South Carolina Backcountry in June, 1780, scattered bands of American militia coalesced...