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BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE
25 mm
Although the British took the field and won the battle, Major-General Nathaniel Greene lost 264 men and saved his army by retreating. Where as Lt. General Cornwallis lost 532 men which was about a quarter of his army. Charles Fox, a British politician opposed to the war declared, "another such victory would ruin the British army.
 Looking Southeast, Continentals are in the wood line while the British march across an open field. |  Jagers are on the left and the Light Infantry are to the right of them. |
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 33rd Foot. |  Lynch's Virginia Rifles |
 4th Virginia Regiment |  Continental Artillery & 4th Virginia Regiment |
 23rd Foot, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. |  Grenadiers. |
 1st Maryland, 1st/3rd Continental Dragoons & 2nd Battalion Foot Guard in melee. |  1st Maryland, 1st/3rd Continental Dragoons & 2nd Battalion Foot Guard in melee. |
 Lt. Gen. Cornwallis firing cannons into the backs of his men to break the Continental on slaughter. |  1st Maryland, 1st/3rd Continental Dragoons & 2nd Battalion Foot Guard in melee. |
 1st Maryland, 1st/3rd Continental Dragoons & 2nd Battalion Foot Guard in melee. |  2nd Battalion, 71st Highlanders. |
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