✦ History

Part of American Revolutionary War

Battle of Camden

August 16, 1780 · Battle of Camden

Result British victory

Cornwallis routed Gates's rebuilt southern army north of Camden, South Carolina.

On the map Contemporaries

American

British

United States
Great Britain
Horatio Gates military commander Johann de Kalb military commander Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie military commander
Charles Cornwallis military commander Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
4,000
Casualties
9001,900
Captured
1,0001,000
Guns
8
Guns lost
7
Strength
2,1002,000
Casualties
324800
Killed
68
Wounded
245
Missing
11
Guns
4

Units

Southern Army (Continental Army) 1st Maryland Regiment
British southern army (Clinton and Cornwallis) British Legion (Tarleton)

Also involved 1