How can you win most battles and not win the war? Well the British won most of the battles but Patriots never surrender, so the British fail to control the colonies. In the colonies it became a brutal civil war between Patriots and Loyalists. In October 1780 in King Mountain, the Patriots defeated Loyalists and executed many prisoners. That cause that neutral civilians took the Patriots side, they blame British troops for bringing chaos into their lives.
Funny, the British instead ok killing and destroying Patriots, they made some Loyalists to side with Patriots, they continue making mistakes. Incredible the way they were helping their enemy. General Cornwallis became more and more frustrated with what was happening, they couldn’t defeat the Patriots and in an unconscious way they were helping them out.
The Continental Army was small but with huge spirit, they were lead by Nathanael Greene. In early 1781 the Patriots won a couple of battles on the British in Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse. So Cornwallis had this brilliant idea of going to the north into Virginia, but this brilliant mind didn’t thought of the trap he was going into, a trap very well design by the Continental Army.
The victory in the battle of Cowpens convinced many Americans that the war could be won by them.
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