Episode Details

In the summer of 1781, after raiding Virginia, General Cornwallis obeys orders from General Clinton to retreat to the coast. General Lafayette, after getting reinforcements under General Anthony Wayne, attacks the British rear near Green Spring, Virginia.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America, by Mary Stockwell.

Online Recommendation of the Week: The ‘Affair Near James Island’ (or, ‘The Battle of Green Spring’): https://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/essays/hatch/index.html

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