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- Note on Find a Grave:
Ensign Robert Dunlap refused an order to retreat and lost his life at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina March 15, 1781. He was 41 years old. The battle was pivotal in the American Revolution. The American forces were lead by General Nathanael Greene.
A national park now stands on the site.
"I never saw such fighting since God made me. The Americans fought like demons" -Lt. General Charles, Earl Cornwallis
On March 15, 1781 Major General Nathanael Greene and his army of 4,400 Americans contested the British invasion of North Carolina at Guilford Courthouse. Lt. Gen. Charles, Earl Cornwallis, commanded the tough professional force of 1,900 British soldiers.
Greene deployed his men into smaller groups to take advantage of the terrain. The Courthouse battle was fierce. The veteran British troops were severely crippled. Cornwallis lost a quarter of his army and almost a third of his officers. Greene lost only six percent of his men.
With greatly diminished ranks and depleted supplies, Cornwallis withdrew to the coast, 200 miles away. The battle fought at Guilford Courthouse was the largest and most hotly contested action of the Revolutionary War's Southern Campaign. It is considered the high-water mark of that campaign in that it changed the course of the war and contributed to the eventual American victory at Yorktown seven months later.
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- 6-Ensign Robert (1740-1781), of "Aspen Grove," Rockbridge Co., Va.; furnished money to the McConnells to found McConnells' Station (located in what is now Lexington, Ky.), for which he was to receive 500 acres of present site of Lexington, but this estate was lost to grandchildren by decision of the Court of Appeals of Ky. in 1805; ensign at battle of Guilford Ct. House, in which he was lost or killed because he refused to obey orders to retreat; m Mary, dau. William Bay (b. Ireland), of Gay's run, Rockbridge Co. Va., m Margaret Walkup (sist of Capt. James Walkup, one of the two cdrs. at battle of Walkup's Plantation, N.C. in Am. Rev.); among their issue 1-Ann(b 1765), m. David McKee, founder Clear Creek Presbyn. Ch., Jessamine Co., Ky.; 2-Maj. William (below); 3- Alexander (b 1768), mem. Va. Legislature, m Jane Alexander; 4- Agnes (b 1779), m Samuel McCutchen, elder and a founder Lebanon Presbyn. Ch., Rockbridge Co., Va.;
4-Maj. William (1767-1834), of "Aspen Grove," m Elizabeth, au. Capt. James Coursey, Orange co., Va., m Winifred Riddle (kinswoman of Conf. States Senator William Lowndes Yancey, Protagonist of Secession and distinguished orator of the South)
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of The First Families of America, v. I. Edited by Frederick A. Virkus. Chicago, 1925. Page 281.
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