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English: Map depicting marching leading up to the 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Letter key:
  • A: Richard Caswell's North Carolina militia retreat to Moore's Creek Bridge
  • B: Loyalist force crosses branch of Black River above Corbett's Ferry and moves to Moore's Creek Bridge
  • C: Militia of John Ashe and Alexander Lillington move by forced marches from Rockfish Creek to Moore's Creek Bridge
  • D: Continentay Army units under James Moore follow behind Ashe and Lillington
Date Base map: published 1794; additions 2010
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Own work. Base map is from the North Carolina Collection at UNC: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ncmaps&CISOPTR=374&CISOBOX=1&REC=10 The movements depicted are based on textual descriptions in the following sources:

  • Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5. OCLC 44562323.
  • Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 56951286.
Author Thomas Kitchin; User:Magicpiano
Other versions See File:NCMooresCreek1.png for movements preceding these.

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