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They had fought for freedom from Quebec to Saratoga , from Camden and Cowpens to Germantown , Valley Forge , and Monmouth - - towns and countrysides once so anonymous that King George complained he could neither pronounce them nor find them on the map . The project will help document the significance of the town as it related to the decisive military engagements between American and British forces at the battles of Kings Mountain in 1780 and Cowpens in 1781 . The commander of the 278th Regimental Combat Team traces the lineage of his Tennessee National Guard unit back to the 1781 Battle of Cowpens in the Revolutionary War where Southern volunteers gave the Redcoats of Lord Cornwallis everything they could handle and sent them into a ragged and disorderly retreat . The Department of History compiled the following primary source material concerning the Battle of Cowpens to assist West Point cadets in examining the battle that occurred on 17 January 1781 and the events and decisions that led to the engagement . He also provided assistance to General Greene in the establishment of the American camp at the Battle of Cowpens in 1780 . He fought in several battles , was promoted to General , and was awarded a gold star by the Continental Congress for his victory at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781 . The British lost many of the ensuing encounters including a significant defeat at The Cowpens In January , 1781 .