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Battle of Guilford CourthouseCornwallis’s Pyrrhic victory over Nathaniel Green in the North Carolina countryside on 15th March 1781Battle:?Guilford CourthouseWar:?American Revolutionary WarMajor-General Nathaniel Greene: Battle of Guilford Courthouse on 15th March 1781 in the American Revolutionary WarDate of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse:?15th March 1781Place of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse:?North Carolina in the United States of batants at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse:?British against the Americans.Generals at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse:?Major-General Lord Cornwallis against Major-General Nathaniel Greene.Size of the armies at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse:?Around 1,900 British troops against 4,400 Americans troops.Uniforms, arms and equipment at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse: ??The British infantry wore red coats, with bearskin caps for grenadiers, tricorne hats for battalion companies and caps for the light infantry. The Highland Scots troops wore the kilt and feather bonnet.Major-General Lord Cornwallis: Battle of Guilford Courthouse on 15th March 1781 in the American Revolutionary WarThe two regiments of British light dragoons serving in America, the 16th and 17th, arrived in America wearing red coats and crested leather helmets. As the war progressed, the light dragoons abandoned their red coats for green.Tarleton’s legion wore a uniform of green.? The mounted men wore light dragoon helmets.The American troops dressed as best they could. Increasingly, as the war progressed, infantry regiments of the Continental Army took to wearing mostly blue or brown uniform coats.? The American militia continued in rough clothing.The infantry of both sides were armed with muskets. The British and German infantry carried bayonets.? The Highland Scots troops carried broadswords as an additional weapon.During the winter of 1777/8 in Valley Forge, Steuben insisted that the American Continental troops be issued with bayonets, whose use Steuben’s training dealt with, so that they could meet the British and German infantry on an equal footing in hand to hand fighting.? This took time to implement in full.All the information is found from ................
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