Qualla: Battle of Fishing Creek https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/m/battle-of-fishing-creek-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Fishing Creek https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek Battle of Fishing Creek: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek/ Photo credit Joshua Reynolds, Public domain. Thomas Sumter was asleep under a wagon when the British cavalry came over the ridge. It was August 18, 1780, the height of a Carolina summer, and his men had been marching and fighting for days. Two days earlier, the main American army under Horatio Gates had been shattered at Camden - though Sumter, miles to the north, did not yet appreciate how disastrously alone he now was. His column was loaded with captured British wagons. His guards were posted too close. Banastre Tarleton, 160 men at his back, was hunting him with the speed that had already made his name notorious. When the alarm came, it came too late.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/m/battle-of-fishing-creek-wp/dnnm-battle-of-fishing-creek-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Fishing Creek: Cornwallis Sets the Trap https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek/ Photo credit Joshua Reynolds, Public domain. Two days before, on August 16, the main Continental army under General Horatio Gates had collapsed at Camden in one of the worst American defeats of the war. Cornwallis, freshly victorious, turned his attention to the Patriot militia harassing his rear. Sumter had been having an ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/m/battle-of-fishing-creek-wp/dnnm-battle-of-fishing-creek-cornwallis-sets-the-trap.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Fishing Creek: An Afternoon at Rest https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek/ Photo credit Joshua Reynolds, Public domain. Sumter heard about Camden as he marched north toward Charlotte, and the news should have frightened him into hard riding. Instead, his column halted on August 18 for what they expected to be a brief rest near the mouth of Fishing Creek, where it meets the Catawba. The day was hot...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/m/battle-of-fishing-creek-wp/dnnm-battle-of-fishing-creek-an-afternoon-at-rest.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Fishing Creek: The Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek/ Photo credit Joshua Reynolds, Public domain. Tarleton formed his cavalry in line and charged. The British Legion came down on the unprepared camp at a gallop, sabers out, before the militia could reach their stacked muskets. Some men fought back with whatever was at hand. Most ran for the trees. The killing was brief and on...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/m/battle-of-fishing-creek-wp/dnnm-battle-of-fishing-creek-the-charge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Fishing Creek: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/battle-of-fishing-creek/ Photo credit Joshua Reynolds, Public domain. Fishing Creek was, by any honest accounting, a personal humiliation for Sumter - and he carried the shame of it for the rest of his long life. But it did not end him. Within weeks he was raising another militia. In November 1780, at Blackstock's Farm on the Tyger River, he caught...

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