THE LIFE

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON




CHAPTER I.

Greene invests Camden.... Battle of Hobkirk's Hill....
Progress of Marion and Lee.... Lord Rawdon retires into the
lower country.... Greene invests Ninety Six.... Is
repulsed.... Retires from that place.... Active movements of
the two armies.... After a short repose they resume active
operations.... Battle of Eutaw.... The British army retires
towards Charleston.


{1781}

In South Carolina and Georgia, the campaign of 1781 was uncommonly
active. The importance of the object, the perseverance with which it
was pursued, the talents of the generals, the courage, activity, and
sufferings of the armies, and the accumulated miseries of the
inhabitants, gave to the contest for these states, a degree of
interest seldom bestowed on military transactions, in which greater