Battles+of+the+Revolutionary+War

=__Battles of the Revolutionary War __=

Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
This is one of the most remebered battle of all of the battle of the revolutionary war. This battle took place about 20 miles from Wilmington,South Carolina. At that time North Carolina militiamen where sent into South Carolina and Virginia to fight Tories.By the early 1776 Noth Carolinians where fighting amoung themselves about the war against British.Governor Martin fled to a ship off the Cape Fear Coast. But he encoraged the recently arrived Hightland Scots to march on Wilmiington to join a British invasion of the two Carolinas colonies.Since the Highlander signed an oath of personal loyalty to the king, they kept their word and gathered to fight. Colonel James Moore ordered several groups of militia men to cut them off. The whigs cut them off at Moores Creek Bridge and as the tories where trying to cross they fifty got killed and then soon retreated. =The Battle of Charlestion = ﻿The siege of Charleston was one of the major battles which took plave toward the end of the American Revolutionary War, after the British began to shift their strategic focus towards fighting in the southern colonies. It was the bigges loss of troops suffered to the revolutionary army in the war where in the losses cosisted essentially fo the major pary of the forces. General George washington avoided to matich force on force .General George Washington new that the British could assemble a crushing blow. This battle took place in the 1779s range.

