National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of his army, causing him to retreat to Wilmington and then march into Virginia, where combined French and American forces compelled him to surrender at Yorktown on 19 October, 1781.

Historians consider the Battle of Guilford Court House one of the final links in a chain of events that led to ultimate American victory in the Revolutionary War.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks