Event Level: National

Host/POC:  NCSSAR/Danny Murray at [email protected]

Location:  Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, 2332 New Garden Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410.

Details: The battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, on March 15, 1781, proved pivotal to the American victory in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Although British troops under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) scored a tactical victory at Guilford Courthouse over American forces under Major General Nathanael Greene (1742-86), the British suffered significant troop losses during the battle. Afterward, Cornwallis abandoned his campaign for the Carolinas and took his army into Virginia instead. In October of that year, he surrendered to General George Washington (1732-99) following the Battle of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the war.