The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement

By John R. Maass

Around the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis's British army in a bitter two-hour battle of the Revolutionary War. The frightful contest at Guilford was a severe conflict in which troops made repeated use of their flintlock muskets, steel bayonets and dragoon swords in hand-to-hand fighting that killed and wounded about eight hundred men. Historian John R. Maass recounts the bloody battle and the grueling campaign in the South that led up to it, a crucial event on the road to American independence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467139122
• ISBN13: 9781467139120
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"