CSPAN3 American History TV February 22, 2015
Different mindsets. Cornwallis had this mindset of move forward and hit hard and continually hit and continually march. General greene had a mindset of hit and backup or retreat hit and backup or retreat. He had by the time this battle came, general greene had raised an army to almost twice the size of the british army. He felt pretty good about his odds. First, general cornwallis was in encamped at deep river, which is high point, 10 miles from here. General greene brought all of his soldiers in militia here at guilford courthouse. Set his lines of defense to wait for cornwallis p general gre...