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American Revolutionary War: A militia of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta, Georgia.
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1775–1783 American war of independence from Great Britain
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U.S. paramilitary force
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Colonists who opposed British rule during the American Revolution
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1779 minor conflict of the American Revolutionary War in rural Georgia
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Colonists loyal to Britain during the American Revolution
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Augusta, Georgia
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