Battle of Guilford, North Carolina. Cornwallis’s British pursued Greene’s Americans toward Virginia, but, weakened and in hostile territory, they were forced to give up. As soon as they attempted to break away, Greene seized the opportunity to attack them. 4,400 Americans against 1,900 British. The American dead and wounded numbered 264, while the British lost 506. But for the British, this battle put an end to their plan to reconquer the South of the former American colonies. The British needed a decisive victory, which never came. Instead, they alternated between narrow victories, indecisive battles, and resounding defeats.
