Mom and Lou's Visit, Part 2

Cowpens National Battlefield

History:
"By the dim light of dawn on January 17, 1781, the Americans under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, and the British under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, met and fought a battle that many historians consider to be the turning point of the American Revolution in the Southern Campaign. The site of the battle was a well-known pasturing area called the Cow Pens. In a little less than an hour, the Americans had won. This victory gave them the moral support that they needed to continue fighting the British and win at Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolution, just nine months later."

This is a photo of the battlefield, and the original road that runs through it. You can watch the battle of Cowpens in Mel Gibson's The Patriot, although it was filmed in Charleston, not at Cowpens.

Also of note is the battle of Kings Mountain, but it was thunderstorming, so I don't have pictures for you...

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