ABSTRACT
Unlike General Gates, Nathanael Greene saw that the Americans' best hope lay in guerrilla warfare and minor battles. Greene himself, with the main body, went south-east to Cheraw, just within the border of South Carolina. Greene sent a light, mobile detachment to seize all the boats available, and set off to join Morgan and make for the Dan with all possible speed. Cornwallis had failed to destroy the patriot army, but he could console himself with the thought that he had driven it out of the Carolinas. Meanwhile, Greene had received more trained men from von Steuben, and was preparing to strike again. Greene did not interfere, for it suited him to have the main British force out of the way. Greene himself had a tussle on Hobkirk's Hill, near Camden, with one of Cornwallis's senior officers, and was driven off, on April 25th.
