Cowpens National Battlefield

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|- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Location: | |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Nearest city: | |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Coordinates: | |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Area: | |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | Established: | |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top" | Visitation: | (in ) |- class="hiddenStructure" style="vertical-align: top;" | style="white-space: nowrap;" | Governing body: | |} Cowpens National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service near Chesnee, South Carolina.

Main Entrance to Cowpens National Battlefield

Brigadier General Daniel Morgan won the Battle of Cowpens, a decisive Revolutionary War victory, here over British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton on January 17, 1781.

Established as Cowpens National Battlefield Site March 4, 1929; transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933; redesignated April 11, 1972. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. (Acreage — 841.56 / Federal: 790.9 / Nonfederal: 50.66)

Reference

• The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.

External link

• [National Park Service: Cowpens National Battlefield]

 

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