Charles Cornwallis

<p><span class="deck"> At Cowpens, Dan Morgan showed how militia can be used. The formula worked in three later fights.</span> </p>

<p>“The damn rebels form well”</p>

<p>Courageous and resourceful, the Marquis was bred for better things than defeat at the hands of rebellious provincials.</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Everything depended on a French fleet leaving the Indies on time; two American armies meeting in Virginia on time; a French fleet beating a British fleet; a French army getting along with an American one; and a British general staying put.</span> </span></p>

<p>On the morning of October 17, 1781, an officer emerged from the British lines holding a white handkerchief.</p>

<p>As much as nine-tenths of the indigenous population of the Americas died in less than a generation from European pathogens.</p>