✦ 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 Aaron Burr Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Ogden Abraham Buford Alexander Hamilton General Alexander McDougall Major General Anthony Wayne Artemas Ward Major General Arthur St. Clair Benjamin Lincoln Major General Casimir Pulaski General Christopher Greene Colonel Daniel Morgan General Edward Hand George Clinton George Mathews Green Clay Henry Dearborn General Henry Knox Major General Henry Lee III Horatio Gates Hugh Mercer Brigadier General Israel Putnam General James Clinton Major General James McHenry James Monroe Major James Wilkinson James Winchester James Wood Jean François Hamtramck Colonel Johann de Kalb Major General John Armstrong Jr. General John Brooks Colonel John Francis Mercer Colonel John Glover John Hardin Colonel John Hoskins Stone John Marshall John Stark Major General John Sullivan Major General John Thomas Major General Joseph Bloomfield Joseph Warren Major General Josiah Harmar Josiah Tattnall (politician) Lachlan McIntosh Brigadier General Levin Winder Marquis de Lafayette Morgan Lewis Nathan Hale Colonel Nathanael Greene Major General Peleg Wadsworth General Peter Gansevoort Major General Philip Schuyler General Pierse Long Colonel Richard Butler Robert Magaw Colonel Samuel Smith Seth Warner Colonel Tadeusz Kościuszko Lieutenant General Thomas Knowlton Timothy Pickering General William Barton William Bradford William Darke William Eaton General William Maxwell Brigadier General William Moultrie Major General William Prescott Colonel William Sanford Pennington Major William Whipple William Woodford Brigadier General George Washington 1775–1783 William Alexander 1775–present Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1778–1783 Southern Army (Continental Army) 1st Maryland Regiment Lee's Legion
British southern army (Clinton and Cornwallis) British Legion (Tarleton)

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