Battle of Eutaw Springs

(noun)

The final battle in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, occurring in September 1781. That battle was tactically inconclusive, but still forced the weakened British army to withdraw to Charleston.

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  • Georgia and South Carolina

    • The Continental Congress responded to the fall of Charleston by dispatching General Horatio Gates, a celebrated hero in the Battle of Saratoga, to the South with a new army.
    • However, Gates promptly suffered one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina on August 16, 1780.
    • In the late spring of 1781, Greene led the Siege of Ninety Six in an attempt to secure the village of Ninety Six, South Carolina.
    • The final major battle of the Carolinas took place in Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, on September 1781.
    • Though the tactical victor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs is contested, this engagement so weakened the British that they withdrew to Charleston, where Greene held them for the remaining months of the war.

  • Slowing Momentum

    • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
    • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
    • The Battle of Stalingrad lasted from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties, which placed it among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million.
    • In Libya,the Afrika Korps (the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign) failed to break through the line at First Battle of El Alamein (July 1-27 1942), having suffered repercussions from the Battle of Stalingrad .
    • In spring of 1945, the Soviet Army was at Berlin, and the United States and United Kingdom forces had conquered most of west Germany.

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    • The name "Battle of the Atlantic" was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.
    • The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war.
    • Its effectiveness contributed to German successes also during the Battle of the Atlantic.
    • By spring 1943, the British had also developed an effective sea-scanning radar small enough to be carried in patrol aircraft armed with airborne depth charges.
    • The Battle of the Atlantic was won by the Allies in two months.

  • Swedish-French Intervention

    • Bernhard's victory in the Battle of Compiègne pushed the Habsburg armies back towards the borders of France.
    • The two army groups moved south from spring 1636, re-establishing alliances on the way including a revitalised one with Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel.
    • The two Swedish armies combined and confronted the imperialists at the Battle of Wittstock.
    • After the battle of Wittstock, the Swedish army regained the initiative in the German campaign.
    • The Battle of Prague in 1648 became the last action of the Thirty Years' War.

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    • The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
    • By the spring of 1942, despite the failure of Operation Barbarossa to decisively defeat the Soviet Union in a single campaign, the Germans had captured vast expanses of territory, including Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic republics.
    • Stalingrad's significance has been downplayed by some historians, who point either to the Battle of Moscow or the Battle of Kursk as more strategically decisive.
    • At the time, however, the global significance of the battle was not in doubt.
    • Argue for or against the categorization of the Battle of Stalingrad as a turning point in the war

  • Napoleon's Military Record

    • In the spring of 1792, France declared war on Prussia and Austria, which responded with a coordinated invasion of the country. 
    • Napoleon's forces annihilated a series of Egyptian and Ottoman armies at the battles of the Pyramids, Mount Tabor, and Abukir.
    • He returned in the fall of 1799 to cheering throngs in the streets despite the Royal Navy's critical triumph at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
    • Napoleon then reorganized the French army and launched a new assault against the Austrians in Italy during the spring of 1800.
    • Battle of the Pyramids on July 21, 1798 by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808.

  • Washington's Escape from New York

    • A series of battles for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey between British forces under General William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington occurred in 1776 and the winter months of 1777.
    • This battle was called the Battle of Trenton.
    • To defend against this move, Washington withdrew most of his army to White Plains, where, after a short battle in October, he retreated further north.
    • They controlled much of New York and New Jersey, and were in a good position to resume operations in the spring, with the rebel capital of Philadelphia in striking distance.
    • The British lost more than one quarter of their force in the battle, and American morale rose with the victory.

  • The War in the West

    • Most battles in the west involved conflict between American Indians and civilian settlers.
    • By late spring 1776, fewer than 200 colonists remained in Kentucky, gathered in a few fortified settlements.
    • In August 1782, British General Caldwell led 300 American Indians into Kentucky in the Battle of Blue Licks, delivering a devastating defeat to 182 militiamen in the state.
    • The Battle of Blue Licks was one of the final battles of the American Revolutionary War and occurred 10 months after Lord Charles Cornwallis’ famous surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east.
    • This map depicts the battles and massacres that occurred within Ohio Country between 1775 and 1794.

  • Union Victories in the Western Theater

    • Union victory in battles in the Western Theater were strategically important in defeating the Confederacy.
    • The second campaign, beginning in the spring of 1863, was successful and is considered Grant's greatest achievement of the war.
    • The Battles for Chattanooga began in earnest on November 24, 1863.
    • At the Battle of Nashville, facing combined Union forces, Johnston dug in a few miles south of the city and waited; hoping to wreck the coming Union troops on the Confederate fortifications.
    • Identify the battles fought by Generals Johnston, Bragg, Hood, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant in the Western Theater of the Civil War.

  • The Setbacks in the Atlantic

    • The U-boat fleet, which was to dominate so much of the Battle of the Atlantic, was small at the beginning of the war.
    • The British and French formed a series of hunting groups including three battle cruisers, three aircraft carriers, and 15 cruisers to seek the raider and her sister Deutschland, which was operating in the North Atlantic.
    • Hitler's plans to invade Norway and Denmark in the spring of 1940 led to the withdrawal of the fleet's surface warships and most of the ocean-going U-boats for fleet operations in Operation Weserübung.
    • December 1939, HMS Achilles as seen from HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate.
    • December 1939, HMS Achilles as seen from HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate.