Battle of Eutaw Springs

At the Battle of Eutaw Springs, Major John Marjoribanks, pronounced "Marshbanks," led a battalion of elite troops holding the right flank of Colonel Alexander Stewart's British army. Fighting from a dense oak thicket, his men held their position against repeated attacks until they were driven back to a palisade fence around the plantation house, where they continued to inflict heavy casualties on the attacking Americans. When the Americans halted their charge to loot the British camp, Marjoribanks led his battalion in a counterattack that helped turn the tide of the battle. Stewart credited Major Marjoribanks and the flank battalion under his command with the honor of the day, but the veteran officer died a month later.

South Carolina · United States