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2 unusual facts about Battle of Waxhaws


Battle of Waxhaws

The community in which the battlefield is located is now called Buford.

In the 2000 movie The Patriot, Heath Ledger's character Gabriel Martin is wounded in a battle that takes place not long after the fall of Charleston.


Lancaster County, South Carolina

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.


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