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Battle of Blackstock's Farm
The Battle of Blackstock's Farm, an encounter of the American Revolutionary War, took place in what today is Union County, South Carolina, a few miles from Cross Anchor, on November 20, 1780.
==Background==
After the defeat of Major Patrick Ferguson and the destruction or capture of his entire military force of 900 men at the Battle of Kings Mountain the previous month, the sparsely settled Carolina Backcountry had come increasingly under the control of the Patriots.〔Henry Lumpkin, ''From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981), 106.〕 Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, British commander in the Southern theater, ordered his most gifted subordinate Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton to abandon his chase of the guerrilla commander Brigadier General Francis Marion and instead disrupt the activities of Patriot militia Brigadier General Thomas Sumter, thereby returning confidence to Backcountry Tories.〔John Buchanan, ''The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas'' (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 251; Robert D. Bass, ''Ninety Six,: The Struggle for the South Carolina Back Country'' (Lexington, South Carolina: Sandlapper, 1978), 290. On the day of the Blackstock battle, Cornwallis wrote, "If Tarleton only drives Sumter back in a hurry, I hope it will give our friends more spirit."〕 Meanwhile, Sumter had been gathering partisan volunteers and now had a thousand men under his command.〔Lumpkin, 109.〕
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