... , baiting Cornwallis. General Daniel Morgan took his contingent, of which many were part of a specially trained rifle corps, and headed west. Cornwallis sent Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, known for his ferocity and ruthlessness, after Morgan. Tarleton caught up to Morgan at Cowpens, an old cattle pasture about thirty miles west of King's Mountain. Morgan used his intimate knowledge of the locale, and ... British disdain for militia, to his advantage. Morgan lured Tarleton into an elaborately conceived trap, and the trap closed with precision. Losing over 800 men, about one-sixth ...

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