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EUTAWVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUTAWVILLE , a See also:

town of See also:Berkeley See also:county, See also:South Carolina, U.S.A., about 55 M. N.N.W. of See also:Charleston. Pop. (1900) 305; (1910) 405. It is served by the See also:Atlantic See also:Coast See also:Line railway. The town lies on high ground near the Santee See also:river, in a region abounding in swamps, See also:limestone cliffs and See also:pine forests. At See also:present its See also:chief See also:interest is in See also:lumber, but in colonial days it was a See also:settlement of aristocratic See also:rice planters. The neighbouring Eutaw Springs issue first from the See also:foot of a See also:hill and See also:form a large stream of clear, cool See also:water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about e m. farther on. At Eutaw Springs, on the 8th of See also:September 1781, was fought the last See also:battle in the See also:field in the See also:Southern States during the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence. About 2300 Americans under See also:General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene here attacked a slightly inferior force under See also:Colonel See also:Alexander See also:Stewart; at first the Americans drove the See also:British before them, but later in the See also:day the latter took a position in a See also:brick See also:house and behind palisades, and from this position the Americans were unable to drive them. On the See also:night of the 9th, however, Colonel Stewart retreated toward Charleston, abandoning 1000 stand of arms. The battle has been classed as a See also:tactical victory for the British and a strategical victory for the Americans, terminating a See also:campaign which See also:left General Greene in virtual See also:possession of the Carolinas, the British thereafter confining them-selves to Charleston.

The Americans lost in killed and wounded 408 men (including Colonel See also:

William See also:Washington, wounded and captured); the British, 693.

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