Battle of Cowan's Ford

Battle of Cowan's Ford
Part of the American Revolutionary War
DateFebruary 1, 1781
Location
Lincoln and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Result British victory
Belligerents
 Great Britain United States
Commanders and leaders
Kingdom of Great Britain Lord Cornwallis
Kingdom of Great BritainBanastre Tarleton		 United States William Davidson †
Strength
2,440 800
Casualties and losses
4 killed
36 wounded[1]		 4 killed
Wounded unknown
3 captured[2]

The Battle of Cowan's Ford took place in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780–1782 Campaign during the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on February 1, 1781, at Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in northwestern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, between a force of about 2,400 British and about 800 Whig militia who were attempting to slow the British advance across the river. The American general William Lee Davidson was killed in this battle.[3]

  1. ^ O'Kelley, Patrick, Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, Volume Three, 1781, Blue House Tavern Press, 2005, ISBN 1-59113-700-4, p. 66
  2. ^ O'Kelley, p. 68
  3. ^ "The Battle of Cowan's Ford". Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Archived from the original on August 13, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2008.