Babits posits that this may be due to professional and popular interest in George Washington (ibid.). Yet, despite the battle's significance in both the final American victory and its own rightful status as a "tactical masterpiece," it is, according to Babits, "not well known today" (p. The Revolutionaries' victory at Cowpens was one of the brightest American tactical moments in the War for Independence and a contributing factor toward the eventual British surrender at Yorktown. Babits, an associate professor of maritime history and nautical archaeology at East Carolina State University, painstakingly combed through pension records, participants' accounts, and contemporary maps in order to produce this sophisticated and deftly written examination of one of the American Revolution's key battles. Babits's Devil of a Whipping is a model study of the 1781 Battle of Cowpens that integrates "new military history" and its bottom-up approach with traditional operational history and a keen understanding of terrain and topography. Herrera (Department of History and Geography, Texas Lutheran University) The Battle of Cowpens.Ĭhapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
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