Talk:Battle of Cowpens

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I was just editing this article, and I found some plagarism. "Daniel Morgan knew both his men and his opponent" is a direct quote from a National Park Service article on Morgan found http://www.nps.gov/cowp/dmorgan.htm. sophysduckling

It's copied, not plagiarized. It's public domain--nothing was stolen.

[edit] Similarities to Cannae

I would like to delete this entire section, because it's so full of peackocking and sounds like hero worship. Civil Engineer III 20:31, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The goal of this strategy was to weaken and disorganize Tarleton's forces (which would be attacking the third line uphill) before attacking and defeating them.

Additionally, by placing his men downhill from the advancing British lines, Morgan exploited the British tendency to fire too high in battle

The above sentences appear in 2 consecutive paragraphs in the Cowpens article. They appear to be at odds with each other as to the position of the American forces. Were they uphill or downhill from the British? 170.97.167.61 18:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)