Causes Of The Battle Of Camden
Allissa Nichols
Mrs. King
E.L.A 5th
20 December 2016
The Battle of Camden
There were several reasons as to why there was a The Battle of Camden started. One of the cause was The Battle of Saratoga.According to Dr. John R. Maass The American forced four thousand men and twelve hundred veteran Continentals. The Battle of Camden started because they had stopped another major British invasion in Saratoga.Sometimes stopping one battle can start another.Another cause of The Camden Battle was capturing Charleston. According to Dr. John R. Maass After capturing Charleston in May, 1780, British forces established a number of posts in the interior of South Carolina to exert control over the state and to quell rising Patriot militia activity. One of their main bases was at Camden, an …show more content…
What Charles Cornwallis did was he led several successful early campaigns during the American Revolution. In 1781, as second in command to Gen. Henry Clinton, he moved his forces to Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown. This American victory and Cornwallis’ surrender of his troops to George Washington was the final major conflict of the American Revolution. What Edward Stevens did was he served less than two years in the American army resigning in January 1778. Edwards did not continue to serve Virginia his first major actions as brigadier general of militia occurred when he took 700 men to join General Horatio Gates’s army in the south. As a member of this army the militia fought in the disastrous battle at Camden where, by all accounts, they did not fight well. Charles Teffin Armand did was he decided on a career in the military at an early age. His career in the French would not last long. He would eventually be forced to resign wounding the King’s cousin. He decided to go to America in 1776 in an attempt to revive his military career. He joined the American army in 1776 and was given the rank of
Mrs. King
E.L.A 5th
20 December 2016
The Battle of Camden
There were several reasons as to why there was a The Battle of Camden started. One of the cause was The Battle of Saratoga.According to Dr. John R. Maass The American forced four thousand men and twelve hundred veteran Continentals. The Battle of Camden started because they had stopped another major British invasion in Saratoga.Sometimes stopping one battle can start another.Another cause of The Camden Battle was capturing Charleston. According to Dr. John R. Maass After capturing Charleston in May, 1780, British forces established a number of posts in the interior of South Carolina to exert control over the state and to quell rising Patriot militia activity. One of their main bases was at Camden, an …show more content…
What Charles Cornwallis did was he led several successful early campaigns during the American Revolution. In 1781, as second in command to Gen. Henry Clinton, he moved his forces to Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown. This American victory and Cornwallis’ surrender of his troops to George Washington was the final major conflict of the American Revolution. What Edward Stevens did was he served less than two years in the American army resigning in January 1778. Edwards did not continue to serve Virginia his first major actions as brigadier general of militia occurred when he took 700 men to join General Horatio Gates’s army in the south. As a member of this army the militia fought in the disastrous battle at Camden where, by all accounts, they did not fight well. Charles Teffin Armand did was he decided on a career in the military at an early age. His career in the French would not last long. He would eventually be forced to resign wounding the King’s cousin. He decided to go to America in 1776 in an attempt to revive his military career. He joined the American army in 1776 and was given the rank of