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Baron de Kalb Monument

Monument

A monument to Major General Johann de Kalb, the German-born French officer who commanded the Maryland and Delaware Continentals at Camden. De Kalb was shot eleven times in the battle and died three days later. The monument marks one of the few individual officer deaths of the Southern Campaign commemorated with a dedicated marker.

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Address

Broad St, Camden, SC 29020

Connected Events

Jul 1780
Gates Takes Command of Southern Army

Major General Horatio Gates, Baron Johann de Kalb

Jul 1780
Aug 1780
Battle of Camden

Baron Johann de Kalb, Lieutenant Colonel James Webster

Aug 1780
Gates Flees to Charlotte

Major General Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene

Aug 1780
Tarleton Pursues American Survivors

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton

Aug 1780
American and British Columns Collide at Night

Major General Horatio Gates, Lord Charles Cornwallis

Aug 1780
Battle of Fishing Creek (Sumter Defeated)

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, Brigadier General Thomas Sumter

Aug 1780
Death of Baron de Kalb

Baron Johann de Kalb

Oct 1780
Greene Appointed to Replace Gates

Major General Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene

May 1781
British Abandon Camden

Nathanael Greene