**Hobkirk's Hill and the Unraveling of British Power in the South**
PEOPLE
Nathanael Greene
Continental Army General, Southern Department Commander
Brigadier General Francis Marion
Partisan Commander, Continental Army Officer, Swamp Fox
Lord Francis Rawdon
British General, Camden Garrison Commander, Irish Volunteer
Colonel William Washington
Continental Army Cavalry Officer, 3rd Continental Light Dragoons
KEY EVENTS
STORIES
HISTORICAL VOICE
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, and Fight Again
The letter Greene wrote to Joseph Reed after Hobkirk's Hill contains one of the most quoted sentences of the Revolutionary War: "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." It has become a kind of mot...
MODERN VOICE
Winning the Battle, Losing the Post
Lord Rawdon is one of the more interesting British commanders of the southern campaign — young, aggressive, and strategically clear-eyed in a way that his superiors were not always. At 26, he commande...