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Tag Archives: William Hardee
Defense in Depth as a Revolutionary War Battlefield Tactic
Part 4 (click here for first three parts) As we have seen, two untrained, amateur, but very effective soldiers perfected the concept of the defense in depth during the campaigns of 1781. Morgan was the first to experiment with the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Monuments, National Park Service, Southern Theater
Tagged Banastre Tarleton, Battle of Cowpens, Battle of Guilford Court House, Daniel Morgan, Eric Wittenberg, William Hardee
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Looking Back to Cowpens: William J. Hardee and the Battle of Averasboro
After abandoning Fayetteville, North Carolina to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s army group, Lieutenant General William J. Hardee withdrew his corps north of the city. Hardee had ordered the Clarendon Bridge over the Cape Fear River destroyed, removing the possibility of … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged 150th Anniversary of Averasboro, Alfred Rhett, Army of Georgia, Banastre Tarleton, Battle of Averasboro, Battle of Bentonville, Battle of Cowpens, Battle of Gettysburg, Covering Force Action, Daniel Morgan, Defense in Depth, Henry Case, Henry Slocum, James Morgan, John Buford, Joseph Johnston, Joseph Wheeler, Lafayette McLaws, Murfreesboro, Nathaniel Jackson, Shiloh, Stephen Elliot, William Butler, William Hardee, William T. Sherman, William Vandever, William Ward
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