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Waxhaw Creek to Camden a turbulent Carolinas saga 1780
British forces under Tarleton crushed Buford at Waxhaw Creek on May 29 1780 in South Carolina. The clash sparked brutal Civil War era fighting across the Carolinas as Marion Sumter Pickens and Green fought Loyalists and British, culminating in Gates and Kalb’s failed Camden campaign and a panicked American retreat toward Hillsborough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis G. Walett
Worcester State College
Antiquarian Society
Col. Abrahams
South Carolina
Banastre
Tarleton
Buford
Charleston
North Carolina
Waxhaw Creek
Cruft
Harry’’ Lee
Waxhaw
Banastre Tarleton
Overnor Rutledge
Redcoats
America
Britain
Carolinas
Gov
William Bull
John Rutledge
Ilitia
Francis Marion
One Fox
Marion
Pee Dee
Santee
Thomas Sumter
Carolina
Andrew Pickens
Pickens
Nathaniel Green
Continental Army
Washington
Baron de Kalb
Horatio Gates
Congress
Deep River
de Kalb
Upper South Carolina
Gates
Camden
Cornwallis
Eneral Gates
Otho H. Williams
Maryland
New Jersey
Hillsborough