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A Dictionary of American History
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Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of
Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of (N.C.) On 27 February 1776, Colonel James Moore’s 1,900 Continentals and N.C. militia defeated Donald McDonald’s 1,700 Scottish Tories. N.C. losses: 1 killed, 1 wounded. Scots Tory losses: 50 killed or wounded, 850 captured, 1,850 firearms. The victory crushed N.C.’s Tories, who remained quiescent until after the fall of Charles Town, S.C.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed July 5, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49RSQ3ZYTMBRBPY.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 5 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49RSQ3ZYTMBRBPY.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Moore’s Creek Bridge, Battle of' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 5 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49RSQ3ZYTMBRBPY.
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