SC, USA
Hobkirk's Hill
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Hobkirk's Hill.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, and Fight Again
Nathanael Greene
The letter Greene wrote to Joseph Reed after Hobkirk's Hill contains one of the most quoted sentences of the Revolutionary War: "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." It has become a kind of mot...
Modern VoiceWinning the Battle, Losing the Post
Lord Rawdon is one of the more interesting British commanders of the southern campaign — young, aggressive, and strategically clear-eyed in a way that his superiors were not always. At 26, he commande...