patriot militia won the battle of ramsour's mill.
patriot militia won the battle of ramsour's mill.
who won the battle of ramsour's mill?
patriot militia
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the battle of ramsour's mill took place on june 20, 1780 in present-day lincolnton, north carolina, during the british campaign to gain control of the southern colonies in the american revolutionary war. the number of fighters on each side of the battle is still an issue of contention, but loyalist militiamen (many of them german palatine emigrants and settlers in the local area) outnumbered patriot militia and had captured a group of patriots who they were planning to hang on the morning of june 20.
battle of ramsour's mill
loyalist john moore had served with the british at the siege of charleston and returned to his home a few miles from ramsour's mill with tales of battle. he called together a group of about 40 loyalists on june 10 and shared with them instructions from cornwallis that for safety they should avoid organizing before british troops entered the area. news came to the meeting that a group of about twenty patriots was looking for moore and other loyalist leaders. moore and his men decided to find and confront them, but were unsuccessful. moore then told his men to return home, and instructed them to join him in a few days at ramsour's mill. on june 13, 200 men arrived there, and the number grew in the following days, buoyed by news of the british victory at waxhaws. by june 20 the loyalist camp had grown to about 1,300 men.
battle of ramsour's mill