About 2.5 miles south at Hanging Rock, Maj. Davie surprised a British force on Aug. 1, 1780, and killed or wounded most of them. There also, on Aug. 6, 1780, Col. Hill, Col. Irwin, and Maj. Davie, all under Gen. Sumter, successfully attacked the Prince of Wales's American Regiment and detachments of the 63rd and 71st Infantries, under Maj. Carden.