![]() ![]() The British arrived on March 15th after marching 12 miles. The North Carolina militia was in the front (flanked on either side by cavalry, light infantry, and riflemen), the Virginia militia was behind them, and the Virginia and Maryland Continentals were in the back, off slightly to the right. ![]() He arranged his roughly 4,500 troops (about twice the British number) in three defensive lines, spaced a few hundred yards apart, with no men held in reserve. Greene took his stand at Guilford Courthouse, a densely wooded area. Although Greene made it to relative safety in Virginia, he decided to lead his troops back into North Carolina to face the British. Throughout February 1781, the British army under General Charles Cornwallis had been pursuing General Nathanael Greeneās American force through the Carolinas. Though the British would technically emerge the victors, the cost of their victory would prove devastatingly high. On March 15, 1781, British and American troops clashed at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution and the largest battle in the southern theater. ![]()
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