Waxhaws: Blood in the Backcountry
Special | 7m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
The Battle of Waxhaws was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
On May 29, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion caught up with Colonel Abraham Buford’s army at a place called “The Waxhaws” in the Catawba River valley, located four miles south of the North Carolina border. Over in fifteen minutes and with 113 Americans dead on the field, this massacre became the first major battle of the Southern Campaign.
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Funding and support for this production is provided by The National Park Service, The Self Foundation, The George Washington Endowment Fund of the National Society of the Sons of the...
Waxhaws: Blood in the Backcountry
Special | 7m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
On May 29, 1780, Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion caught up with Colonel Abraham Buford’s army at a place called “The Waxhaws” in the Catawba River valley, located four miles south of the North Carolina border. Over in fifteen minutes and with 113 Americans dead on the field, this massacre became the first major battle of the Southern Campaign.
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The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Funding and support for this production is provided by The National Park Service, The Self Foundation, The George Washington Endowment Fund of the National Society of the Sons of the...