Battle of Camden
08/16/1780 AD defeated
Major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, South Carolina, thus strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.
The rout was a personally humiliating defeat for Gates, the U.S. general best known for commanding the American forces at the British defeat at Saratoga three years previously. His army had possessed a great numerical superiority over the British force, having twice the personnel, but his command of them was seen as shambolic. Following the battle, he was regarded with disdain by his colleagues and he never held a field command again. His political connections, however, helped him avoid any military inquiries or courts martial into the debacle.
Lattitude: 34.2591° N
Longitude: 80.6091° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What defeated?
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England Nation -
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (Lord Cornwallis) British Army general and... -
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (Lord Rawdon) Anglo-Irish politician a...
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Horatio Gates British-born American ge... -
Johann de Kalb French military officer ... -
Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouërie Breton cavalry officer w...
Attachments
An engraving showing the wounded Baron de Kalb De Kalb's horse was shot from under him, causing him to tumble to the ground. Before he could get up, he was shot three times and bayonetted repeatedly by British soldiers. His friend and aide, the Chevalier du Buysson, was seriously wounded blocking additional blows with his own body.
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