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English: Map depicting preliminary marching prior to the 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Letter key:
  • A: Continental Army movement under James Moore from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek
  • B: Loyalist force's movement from Cross Creek to Corbett's Ferry
  • C: Richard Caswell's North Carolina militia movement from New Bern to Corbett's Ferry
Date Base map: published 1794; additions 2010
Source

Own work. Base map is from the North Carolina Collection at UNC: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ncmaps&CISOPTR=374&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 The movements depicted are based on textual descriptions of the campaign in the following sources:

  • Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0783-5. OCLC 44562323.
  • Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 56951286.
Author Thomas Kitchin; User:Magicpiano
Other versions See File:NCMooresCreek2.png for movements after these leading up to the battle.

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15:45, 31 May 2010Thumbnail for version as of 15:45, 31 May 2010599 × 505 (692 KB)Magicpiano{{Information |Description={{en|Map depicting preliminary marching prior to the 1776 w:Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Letter key: *A: Continental Army movement under James Moore from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek *B: Loyalist force's movement from C

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