Walking Cowpens Battlefield

Walking the Cowpens Battlefield Trail. This was one of the Patriots’ greatest victories in the war, weakening Cornwallis’ army leading to its eventual capture at Yorktown. #revwar #huzzah #americanrevolution #history #cowpens
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