Another Such Victory: The Story of the American Defeat at Guilford Courthouse that Helped Win the War for Independence"'Another such victory would ruin the British army'. These were the words Charles James Fox used before the House of Commons when news reached London of the battle the British forces had won at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. Here is a lively and detailed account of the victory of March 15, 1781, that devastatingly weakened the British, started Cornwallis on the road to Yorktown and ultimately led to surrender."-- |
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