Morgan's flying army
Detachment · United States · December 21, 1780 – February 9, 1781
Daniel Morgan's light corps of Continentals, militia and cavalry, detached by Greene into western South Carolina.
View on map Fought in American Revolutionary War
Attached units 1
- December 21, 1780 – February 8, 1781 1st Maryland Regiment Howard's Maryland Continentals with Morgan at Cowpens
Engagements 13
- April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776 Siege of Boston
- August 26, 1776 Battle of Long Island
- October 28, 1776 Battle of White Plains
- December 26, 1776 Battle of Trenton
- January 3, 1777 Battle of Princeton
- September 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine
- October 4, 1777 Battle of Germantown
- June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth
- July 16, 1779 Battle of Stony Point
- August 16, 1780 Battle of Camden
- January 17, 1781 Battle of Cowpens
- March 15, 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- September 8, 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs
Movements
- December 21, 1780 Detached from Greene's army at Charlotte Map
- December 25, 1780 – January 15, 1781 Grindal Shoals on the Pacolet River Map
- January 17, 1781 Battle of Cowpens: destroys Tarleton's force Battle of Cowpens Map
- January 23, 1781 Retreats across the Catawba Map
- February 7, 1781 Rejoins Greene at Guilford Courthouse Map