
![]() Col. Frances Lord Rawdon Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene The Kings American Regiment (KAR) 63rd (The West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot Volunteers of Ireland New York Volunteers |
Col. Frances Lord Rawdon Volunteers of Ireland 140 New York Volunteers 160 King’s American Regiment 160 63rd Regiment of Foot Infantry 180 Robertson’s detachment 40 (rifle armed light troops) Convalescents 50 South Carolina Militia 130 Maj. John Coffin’s Dragoons 60 (mounted) Detachment of Royal Artillery and two 6-pounder cannon 20
Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene
Gen. Isaac Huger - Right Flank Brigade Commander Capt. John Smith's Light Infantry Company Lt. Col. William Washington’s Cavalry 90 Col. James Read’s North Carolina militia 254 - reserves Col. Charles Harrison’s artillery company and three 6-pounder cannon 40
The Kings American Regiment (KAR) The Kings American Regiment (KAR) left Georgetown, SC on 24 February 1781 and marched to Camden, two months to the day after their arrival there. At the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill on 25 April 1781, the regiment formed the front left flank of the British line and had behaved superbly under fire. The KAR's light company was detached and on patrol after Patriot Gen. Francis Marion and Lt. Col. "Light Horse Harry" Lee with Lt. Col. John Watson Tadwell Watson and 500 men under his command. The KAR lost forty three killed wounded and missing, their highest casualties of the war; Henry Nase recorded the losses as simply "inconsiderable".
After the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill, the KAR battalion companies retreated to Charleston and were soon shipped to Savannah, Georgia. The KAR was divided and some companies returned to Charleston in December 1781 and some went to New York. The light company fought at Eutaw Springs in September 1781. The regiment was reunited in New York after the evacuation of Charleston in January 1783. After the war, most of the soldiers settled in Nova Scotia.
63rd (The West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot In the Revolutionary War, the 63rd served in the Battles of Bunker Hill (1775), Long Island and Fort Washington N.Y. (1776), the capture of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. (1777), Brandywine and Germantown Pa. (Flank Companies, 1777), Monmouth N.J. (1778), and the capture of Stony Point, N.Y. (1779). In December 1779, the 63rd was sent to the second siege of Charleston. A reinforced light company served as mounted infantry with Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton's British Legion at the Battles of Fishdam Ford and Blackstock, South Carolina, in the fall of 1780. In 1781, the light company went to Virginia with Lord Cornwallis, and serves on the raid of Charlottesville, the Battle of Green Spring, and the fall of Yorktown. The battalion companies remained in South Carolina, and served under Lord Rawdon at the Battles of Hobkirk's Hill and under Lt. Col. Stewart at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
The 63rd left South Carolina in the spring of 1782, with the fleet of 300 vessels which carried away the troops remaining in Carolina after Lord Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, together with 15,000 loyalists and slaves seeking new homes. The 63rd went to the West Indies and from whence it returned to England after the peace of 1783.
Volunteers of Ireland The Volunteers of Ireland fought under Lord Rawdon at Hobkirk's Hill and under Lt. Col. Stewart at Eutaw Springs in September 1781. They were posted in Charleston until they sailed for Ireland in August 1782. ,br> Todd Braisted, Royal Provincial website (as edited by Charles B. Baxley)
New York Volunteers
After the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill on April 25, 1781, the regiment fought at Eutaw Springs in September of 1781.
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