Image: NCMooresCreek2

Description: Map depicting marching leading up to the 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Letter key: A: Richard Caswell's North Carolina militia retreat to Moore's Creek Bridge B: Loyalist force crosses branch of Black River above Corbett's Ferry and moves to Moore's Creek Bridge C: Militia of John Ashe and Alexander Lillington move by forced marches from Rockfish Creek to Moore's Creek Bridge D: Continentay Army units under James Moore follow behind Ashe and Lillington
Title: NCMooresCreek2
Credit: Own work. Base map is from the North Carolina Collection at UNC: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ncmaps&CISOPTR=374&CISOBOX=1&REC=10 The movements depicted are based on textual descriptions in the following sources: Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5. OCLC 44562323. Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 56951286.
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