NORTH CAROLINA New Bern• Edenton• Brunswick• Gilbert Town• SOUTH CAROLINA Georgetown• GEORGIA Augusta• Moores Creek 27 Feb 1776 Sullivans Island 28 June 1776 Kettle Creek 14 Feb 1779 Brier Creek 3 March 1779 Lenuds Ferry 6 May 1780 Waxhaws 29 May 1780 Williamson Plantation 12 July 1780 Kings Mountain 7 Oct 1780 Ninety Six• Besieged by Greene May-June 1781; evacuated by the British July 1781 Hobkirks Hill 25 Apr 1781 Charleston• Captured by the British 12 May 1780 Eutaw Springs 8 Sept 1781 Fort Watson HIGH HILLS OF SANTEE Cornwallis routs Gates at Camden and advances into North Carolina Camden• Hanging Rock 6 Aug 1780 Camden 16 Aug 1780 Fishing Creek 18 Aug 1780 Great Savannah 20 Aug 1780 Charlotte• Greene divides his army sending Morgan to the west and the main army into winter quarters at Cheraw Hills. 20-26 Dec 1780 Cheraw Hills• Greene’s winter quarters 1780-1781 Grindal Shoals Morgan’s camp 25 Dec 1780 to 14 Jan 1781 Cornwallis turns back after Ferguson’s defeat at Kings Mountain and goes into winter quarters at Winnsborough. Winnsborough• Cornwallis’s winter quarters 1780-1781 Tarleton Musgroves Mill 18 Aug 1780 Fishdam Ford 9 Nov 1780 Blackstocks 20 Nov 1780 Hammonds Store 28 Dec 1780 Easterwood Shoals Cowpens 17 Jan 1781 Hamiltons Ford Cornwallis pursues Morgan. Morgan’s line of retreat after Cownpens. Green River Road Island Ford Beatties Ford Island Ford Ramsour’s Mill Cornwallis burns his baggage. 24 Jan 1781 Salisbury• Salem• Guilford Courthouse• Cheraw Hills• Coxs Mill Greene races for the Dan River with Cornwallis in pursuit. Boyds Ferry Greene crosses the Dan River and is resupplied and reinforced. 13 Feb 1781 Cornwallis halts south of the Dan River. Hillsborough• Guilford Courthouse 15 March 1781 Ramseys Mill• Greene breaks off pursuit of Cornwallis after Guilford. Cross Creek• Elizabethtown• Cornwallis retreats to Wilmington Wilmington• Cornwallis marches into Virginia April-May 1781 Halifax• Petersburg• Richmond• Williamsburg• Yorktown• Cornwallis surrenders 19 Oct 1781 The lower South became the decisive theatre of the Revolutionary War. After the struggle settled into stalemate in the north, the British mounted their second campaign to conquer the region. British expeditionary forces captured Savannah in late 1778 and Charleston in May 1780. By late in that summer, most of South Carolina was pacified, and a powerful British army under Cornwallis was poised to sweep across the Carolinas into Virginia.