Battle of Black Mingo
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The Battle of Black Mingo was a skirmish during the American Revolution. It took place in September of 1780[1], in the vicinity of Dollard's Tavern near Willtown on the Black Mingo. General Francis Marion attacked and scattered a contingent of loyalist troops that had been left to secure the region by the British Colonel Banastre Tarleton after his destructive march through the area. The loyalists, under Colonel John Coming Ball, were driven into the nearby swamp after suffering several casualties.[2] [3]
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- ^ The date is reported as the 14th on the nearby South Carolina historical marker, but as the 28th by Chandler (2004)
- ^ William Dobein James, "A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion" (1821)
- ^ J. W. Nelson Chandler, "Willtown, Black Mingo: The Rise and Fall of and Early Village in the South Carolina Lowcountry" in The South Carolina Historical Magazine Vol. 105, No. 2 (April 2004) pp. 107-134
