Battle+of+the+Revolution

North Carolinas did not always earn praise during the southern phase of the War for Independence. Robert Howe of Brunswick had been made the ranking American general in the Carolinas by the Continental Congress. Howe however, lost Sanvannah, Georgia from the british in the late 1778. He was replaced. During the early 1779, General John Ashe of wilimington was to retake Augusta, Georgia form the British. The Army marched in the South Carolinas and collided head on with one commanded by Lord Charles Cornwallis, one of the great Britains most experienced generals/ The Americans were routed at Camden on August 16,1780. Most of the North Carolina troops fled after the first shots were fired. Some ran all the way back into North Carolina to invasion, more than fifty miles.The Provincial Congress committed the country to war, and adjourned to re-assemble on the 20th of June 1775. But the battle of Lexington intervened, removing any hope of a final reconciliation with the mother country. The Provincial Congress instead met on the first of June 1775. media type="custom" key="7561165"