Cowpens 1781

Ed wrote for several Osprey series, and was the author of a four-volume series on the history of Marine Corps tank battalions. He held the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for outstanding non-fiction by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for Tanks In Hell – A Marine Corps Tank Company On Tarawa. Catherine is a retired speech pathologist and audiologist who has written for Osprey, and with Ed is co-author of True For The Cause Of Liberty – The Second Spartan Regiment In The American Revolution. Catherine and Ed were both awarded the Presidential Service Center’s Distinguished Service Medal for their research and writing on the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Ed and Catherine are residents of Texas. Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century.

• Origins of the campaignChronologyOpposing commandersOpposing armiesOrders of battleOpposing plansThe campaignAftermathThe battlefields todayFurther readingIndex

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