WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Cowpens-At the Cowpens, a frontier pastureland, on January 17, 1781, Daniel Morgan led his army of tough Continentals and backwoods militia to a brilliant victory over Banastre Tarleton’s battle-hardened force of British regulars. Located in present-day South Carolina north of Spartanburg.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nicknamed “Bloody Ban” for his ruthlessness, Banastre Tarleton, a British army officer, was hated and feared by patriots in the southern states during the American Revolution. His conduct illustrated and exacerbated the problems the British faced in pacifying the population of South Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -Battle of Cowpens: January 17, 1781 The British mistook the repositioning of the Americans as a rout and ran into an unexpected volley of concentrated rifle fire coupled with a cavalry charge and followed by the return of the militia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lieutenant-General de Rochambeau commanded the French troops. Major-General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British and German troops. Size of the armies at the Battle of Yorktown: 8, 800 American troops, 7, 800 French troops and 6, 000 British and German troops.