K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
The Continentals return fire, and men on both sides fall. Though it isn’t reenacted, the armies fell into hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, even using the butts of their muskets and rifles as clubs. “I never saw such fighting since God made me,” Lord Conwallis would later write. “The Americans fought like demons.”
Photograph by David Walbert
