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This decisive battle was won by the Continental Army forces in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary war against the British Army. The American Brigadier General Daniel Morgan had fallen back on an area known as Hannah's Cowpens, located south of the Broad River in South Carolina. On January 17,1781 British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his British Legion "came upon the Americans. As Morgan had hoped, the overly confident Tarleton failed to reconnoiter and immediately attacked. After firing two rounds each as planned, Morgan's first two lines withdrew. Tarleton, not understanding that this was by design and believing that victory was now his, rushed forward to encounter the final American position of the Continental Line at the top of the hill, at which point the riflemen, militia, and Lieutenant Colonel Washington's cavalry came around both flanks and double-enveloped the attacking British. In the battle, which is sometimes called the American Cannae, Tarleton lost 90 percent of his force."
taken from - Spencer C.Tucker, Battles that Changed American History. (Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014), 62-65.