Hobkirk's Hill, SC
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Nathanael Greene
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 Voices
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...
