QUICK FACTS
- The battle on 17-Jan-1781 takes place at a well-known grazing area for local cattle called Cowpens.
MAPS OF THE BATTLE
Maps courtesy of the Department of History,
United States Military Academy
LINKS
Associated with
Maps courtesy of the Department of History,
United States Military Academy
The Americans ... revolted not to create but to maintain their freedom. American society had developed differently from that of the Old World. From the time of the first settlements in the seventeenth century, wrote Samuel Williams in 1794, every thing tended to produce, and to establish the spirit of freedom.
While the speculative philosophers of Europe were laboriously searching their minds in an effort to decide the first principles of liberty, the Americans had come to experience vividly that liberty in their everyday lives.