A Miniature History of the American Revolution

Part 14: The Militia Line Previous: Fighting on the Skirmish Line Next: Attack on the Main Line The American skirmishers fell back as the Br...

Part 8: The Americans Deploy Previous: Initial Contact Next: Morgan's Plan Now certain that battle was eminent, Brigadier-General Danie...

Part 6: In the Night Previous: Tarleton's Pursuit Next: Initial Contact Early on the night of January 16, 1781, the American force, com...

Part 4: Morgan's Decision Previous: American Order of Battle Next: Tarleton's Pursuit The account of the battle of Cowpens that beg...

In my last post , I raised the question of how the American militia retreated from the front line during the battle of Cowpens. I pointed ou...

I have more-or-less finished creating the battlefield. As noted previously , the scale that I'm working with is at a 1:20 scale for 15mm...

[Minor edits 12/28/09] Last time , I began to describe the American cavalry at Cowpens. At the end of that post, I noted an estimate that th...

[Minor edits 12/27/09] Private Robert Long of South Carolina left two statements that described the deployment of American forces and import...

[Revised 12/26/09] General : An 1822 history, Sketches... of the Highlanders of Scotland , which tells the story of the battle of Cowpens fr...