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Encyclopedia Britannica



COWPENS

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 348 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
COWPENS , a town of
Spartanburg
  county,
South
  Carolina, U.S.A., in the N.
part
  of the state. Pop. (1900) 692; (1910) 1101. It is served by the Southern railway. In colonial days cattle were rounded up and branded herewhence the name. Seven miles N. of the town is the field of the
battle
  of Cowpens, fought on the 17th of January 1781, during the War of American Independence, between the Americans under Gen.
Daniel
 
Morgan
  and the British under Gen. Banastre Tarleton, the British being defeated. A
monument
  was erected on the
battle
 -field in 1859, but was much defaced during the Civil War. The town of Cowpens was founded in 1876, and was incorporated in 1880.


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