Record #:

8969

Author(s):

Blythe, Dolores S.

Abstract:

Lord Cornwallis and his British army had been in Charlotte for almost a week when Cornwallis dispatched a foraging party led by Major John Doyle on October 3, 1780. Captain James Thompson and thirteen other local residents surrounded the party and ambushed them, causing the British to believe they were under attack of a large force. Soon after, British forces retreated from Charlotte.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 6, Nov 1978, p12, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Charlotte; North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783