✦ History

Part of American Revolutionary War

Battle of Guilford Courthouse

March 15, 1781 · Greensboro

Result British victory

Cornwallis defeats Greene in North Carolina but takes heavy losses.

On the map Contemporaries

American

British

United States Greene's army
Great Britain Cornwallis's army
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel
Nathanael Greene military commander
Charles Cornwallis commander, British commander Banastre Tarleton Lieutenant Colonel, commanded the cavalry of the British Legion Charles O'Hara military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
4,5005,000
Casualties
700
Killed
79
Wounded
184–185
Guns lost
4
Strength
2,1002,400
Casualties
532600
Killed
93
Wounded
413
Missing
26
Guns
2

Units

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

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