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    The Battle of Green Spring took place near Green Spring Plantation in James City County, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. On July 6, 1781...
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    Green Spring Plantation in James City County about five miles (8.0 km) west of Williamsburg, was the 17th century plantation of one of the most unpopular...
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    served with distinction in many battles, most notably at White Plains and Fort Washington. The added manpower and skill of German troops greatly sustained...
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    Anthony Wayne (category Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives)
    nickname "Mad Anthony" came from his bold military tactics from the Battle of Green Spring in Virginia, which his men barely escaped an outnumbered British...
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    Virginia in the American Revolution (category History of Virginia)
    caught by the much larger, 5,000 soldier, main body of Cornwallis' forces at the Battle of Green Spring on July 6, 1781. Wayne ordered a charge against Cornwallis...
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    instead of retreating, led a bayonet charge. The charge bought time for the Americans, and the British did not pursue. The Battle of Green Spring was a...
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    Banastre Tarleton (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4926-2. Bass, Robert (1957). The Green Dragoon...
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  • 6th Pennsylvania Regiment (category Pennsylvania regiments of the Continental Army)
    action during the New York Campaign, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth, and Green Spring. The regiment was disbanded on January...
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    of his maps. Elements of Lafayette's army camped two miles south of here at Chickahominy Church after the Battle of Green Spring on 6 July 1781. Places...
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  • Concord: The Battle heard round the world (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-24574-5. Chidsey, Donald Barr (1966). The siege of Boston;...
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    Battle of Spencer's Ordinary (June 26) Battle of Green Spring (July 6) Francisco's Fight (July 9–24) Battle of the Chesapeake (September 5) Battle of...
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    but his force only narrowly escaped destruction at the July 1781 Battle of Green Spring. In August, Washington and French general Rochambeau left New York...
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    The Battle of Mill Springs, also known as the Battle of Fishing Creek in the Confederacy, and the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads or Battle of Somerset in...
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    Sampson Mathews (category People of Virginia in the French and Indian War)
    where it saw action in the Battle of Green Spring. Mathews' field lieutenant colonel, William Boyer, was captured during the battle. On August 8, Mathews went...
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  • Liberty! (category Cultural depictions of Thomas Jefferson)
    incursion from the north and the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, the war in New England, the Battle of Brandywine Creek, the Battle of Saratoga and Burgoyne's surrender...
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    Walter Stewart (general) (category American people of Scotch-Irish descent)
    of a new combat unit. On July 6, 1781, Stewart led a Pennsylvania battalion at the Battle of Green Spring. At first, his troops formed the reserve of...
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  • 4th Continental Artillery Regiment (category Military units and formations of the Continental Army)
    1,000 infantry of the Pennsylvania Line on its march south to Virginia. Wayne fought against Cornwallis at the Battle of Green Spring on 6 July 1781....
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  • Jean-Joseph Sourbader de Gimat (category French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    1780, he was appointed to command a light infantry unit which fought at Green Spring in 1781. He led his men in a successful assault at Yorktown that same...
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    Lafayette Escadrille (category Military history of France)
    unofficial members of the Escadrille Américaine, lion cubs named Whiskey and Soda, provided countless moments of relief from battle stress to fliers. A...
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  • 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment (category Pennsylvania regiments of the Continental Army)
    Virginia and South Carolina, although former members of the regiment were battle casualties at Green Springs on July 6 and Yorktown in October. "history2ndpa"...
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    The Battle of Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781, was the last major engagement of the Revolutionary War to be fought in the Carolinas. Both sides claimed...
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    The Battle of Rhode Island (also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill) took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and Militia forces under the command...
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  • The Battle of Poison Spring, also known as the Poison Spring massacre, was fought in Ouachita County, Arkansas, on April 18, 1864, as part of the Camden...
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    campaign and took part in the Battle of Green Spring. Later, the regiment arrived in Yorktown and was present during the Siege of Yorktown later that year...
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  • William Lee (diplomat) (category Sheriffs of the City of London)
    Champion Travis' of Jamestown Island had escaped. Moreover, his wife's plantation on July 6, 1781, became the site of Battle of Green Spring, as General Lafayette's...
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    Francis Dundas (category Governors of the Cape Colony)
    Revolutionary War under Cornwallis, at the Battle of Clapp's Mills, the Battle of Green Spring, and the Siege of Yorktown. In 1796, he commanded the Scots...
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    Ebenezer Denny (category Adjutants general of the United States Army)
    first time saw wounded men; the sight sickened me." At the 1781 Battle of Green Spring, Denny was the only officer who was not wounded, and was responsible...
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    John Francis Mercer (category Members of the Maryland House of Delegates)
    the rank of lieutenant colonel and served briefly under Lafayette as he led troops at the Battle of Guilford, Battle of Green Spring, siege of Yorktown...
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    fought at the Battle of Green Spring in July of that year. Their last engagement of the war was at the Siege of Yorktown, when they were part of the outnumbered...
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    honor of King William III of England. The capital was moved to Richmond in 1780 at the outset of the American Revolution. The Battle of Green Spring was...
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