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Battle of Earle’s Ford and Fort Prince

Partisan cavalry corps were trained and equipped as British dragoons such as this illustration of the 17th Regiment. Artwork by Graham Turner.

The Battle of Earle’s Ford and Fort Prince, South Carolina, July 15, 1780, [some sources state the 14th while others list the 17th] were both American victories that involved the same belligerents. At Earle’s Ford on the Pacolet River, just south of the North Carolina border, a British force of Provincial Dragoons and South Carolina …