The British Perspective

At Guilford Courthouse, British soldiers faced militia and Continental troops while outnumbered by more than two to one and burdened by hunger and exhaustion on foreign soil hundreds of miles from resupply and reinforcement. A battalion of British Guards swept across this ground from right to left to assault the American third line. By this stage of the fighting, the Guards had momentum, but their ranks had been thinned. As Continentals, the Americans' toughest troops, held the high ground, the British soldiers, as professionals, stepped forward with grim confidence. Lieutenant Colonel James Stewart of the Second Foot Guards was killed here.

Greensboro, North Carolina · United States