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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: gray  no-repeat scroll top left;"|Battle of Guilford Court House

|begin=March 15, 1781

|end=Same day

|place=present day Greensboro, North Carolina

|March 15, 1781

|theater=Southern theater

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|result=British victory (pyrrhic)

 

|combatants1=Continental Army<br/>North Carolina militia<br/>Virginia militia

|commanders1=[[Nathanael Greene]]<br/>Major General, Continental Army

|commanders2=[[Charles Cornwallis]]<br/>Lt. General, Royal Army

|strength1=4,500

|strength2=2,500

|casualties1='''1,357'''<br/>Killed: 126<br/>Wounded: 185<br/>Missing: 1,046

|casualties2='''526'''<br/>Killed: 93<br/>Wounded: 408<br/>Missing: 25

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The '''Battle of Guilford Court House''', a major battle of the American Revolutionary War, occurred on March 15, 1781 at Guilford Court House (now Greensboro), North Carolina. It was fought between the American army of Major General [[Nathanael Greene]] and the British army of Lieutenant General [[Charles Cornwallis]]. The largest single military action of the war in the southern theater, it was technically a victory for the British as they held the field; however, the battle would prove to be a strategic defeat, as the heavy casualties sustained undermined British control of the Carolinas. In the aftermath of Guilford Court House, while Greene marched into South Carolina to contest the British presence in that state, Cornwallis would move north into Virginia and eventually be penned down and forced to surrender at Yorktown later that year. In that respect, Guilford Court House was the epitome of a "Pyrrhic victory" for the British, and a critical step toward the liberation of the American South.

The '''Battle of Guilford Court House''', a major battle of the American Revolutionary War, occurred on March 15, 1781 at Guilford Court House (now Greensboro), North Carolina. It was fought between the American army of Major General [[Nathanael Greene]] and the British army of Lieutenant General [[Charles Cornwallis]]. The largest single military action of the war in the southern theater, it was technically a victory for the British as they held the field; however, the battle would prove to be a strategic defeat, as the heavy casualties sustained undermined British control of the Carolinas. In the aftermath of Guilford Court House, while Greene marched into South Carolina to contest the British presence in that state, Cornwallis would move north into Virginia and eventually be penned down and forced to surrender at Yorktown later that year. In that respect, Guilford Court House was the epitome of a "Pyrrhic victory" for the British, and a critical step toward the liberation of the American South.