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{{RevWarbattle
|name=Battle of Camden
|image=
|begin=August 16, 1780
|end=Same day
|place=Kershaw County, near<br/>Camden, South Carolina
|theater=Southern theater
|campaign=
|result=British victory
|combatants1=Continental Army<br/>various militias
|combatants2=Royal Army
|commanders1=[[Horatio Gates]]
|commanders2=[[Charles Cornwallis]]
|strength1=2,100
|strength2=4,000
|casualties1=Killed and wounded: 900<br/>Captured: 1,000
|casualties2=Killed: 68<br/>Wounded: 245<br/>Missing: 11
}}
The '''Battle of Camden''' was a military action fought near the town of Camden in [[South Carolina]] on August 16, 1780, in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The first battle in the South since the British occupation of [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] earlier in the year, it was a crushing defeat for the Americans, whose Continental Army under Major General [[Horatio Gates]] was routed by the British army of Lieutenant General [[Charles Cornwallis]]. In the wake of Camden, the entire South was threatened with British conquest, a prospect that quickly led to Gates' removal from command and replacement by [[Nathanael Greene]].
The '''Battle of Camden''' was a military action fought near the town of Camden in [[South Carolina]] on August 16, 1780, in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The first battle in the South since the British occupation of [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] earlier in the year, it was a crushing defeat for the Americans, whose Continental Army under Major General [[Horatio Gates]] was routed by the British army of Lieutenant General [[Charles Cornwallis]]. In the wake of Camden, the entire South was threatened with British conquest, a prospect that quickly led to Gates' removal from command and replacement by [[Nathanael Greene]].