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How Did Ferguson Plan To Attack Tarleton
Date |Saturday, October 07, 1780 | |
|Weather |~22 `F, winds 13knots |
|Location |Near Blackburn, SC and King's Mountain, NC |
| |Great Britain |The US Colonies |
|Belligerents |Loyalists |United States |
|Commanders |Patrick Ferguson |James Johnston, John Sevier, William Campbell |
|Casualties |Force: 1200 |Force: 900 …show more content…
Sumter then moved with 240 toward the British fort at Ninety Six. Tarleton stopped his pursuit of Marion and went to |
|Fort Ninety Six. Deciding not to face Tarleton at that time, Sumter fled northward to Blackstock's Plantation. On November 20, |
|Tarleton attacked Sumter's forces but to no avail. Tarleton lost 100 men while the Americans only lost three. Tarleton then |
|rejoined Cornwallis. |
|Meanwhile, Clinton sent General Alexander Leslie to Virginia to prepare for battle there. Leslie was to be under the direct |
|orders of Cornwallis. Cornwallis ordered Leslie to come to South Carolina -- he planned to resume his invasion of North Carolina|
|as soon as Leslie arrived. Believing that Patriot leader Daniel Morgan planned to attack Fort Ninety Six, Cornwallis sent |
|Tarleton to deal with the backwoodsman. Expecting Leslie to arrive in mid-January, Cornwallis planned to advance rapidly |
|northward and cut off the two American armies (Nathaniel Greene's men in the South from George Washington's men in the North).
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