Replay #3

In this replay I try having the British follow what Washington was hoping they'd do, with the results Washington was hoping for; A major American victory!

Cornwallis determines that the rebels are thickest on his left flank, and that's where he decides to concentrate his artillery.

                 When the bombardment is complete, the North Carolinians are in disarray.

General Howe weeps at the staggering losses he sees before him. Abercromby's men were cut down like so much wheat by the Gentlemen farmers and grey held his men back that they might not share that fate. On his right...Oh the horror shall never recede. The Grenadiers and then the Hessians under Donop were layed low in an endless and deadly fusillade.

General Sullivan let out a whistle, "That was close!" It is a good thing I stiffened up Stirling's New Jersey boys with Maxwell's light infantry, those lobsterbacks and their damned Hessian hirelings will think twice before they tangle with ours again!

Washington watches as the remnants of the North Carolinians and Henry Knox's guns withdraw from the British troops coming across Brinton's ford. The British horse wheel and face Bland's cavalry.
General Cornwallis snaps to his subordinates with fury, "This is no time for weak hearts, can't you see they got the worst of it? Once more into the breach will do it!

Late afternoon wears on and there will be no supper this night. Both sides take a breath before getting stuck in.

Knypshausen finally comes out of the woods and gives Nathaniel Greene what for while in the center the two cavalry forces tilt against each other!

At Wistan's ford Wayne loses a brigade and the rest of his men are stunned, but they have destroyed Fraser's Highlanders and driven off the hessians supporting him. Greene's division holding Wistan's ford repelled their assailants also but fell back to recover just as Bland's cavalry fell back recoiling from the titanic clash with Tarleton's men.

At eight o'clock the light is all but faded and the British gather for one more drive to save the day.

They cannot clear a road to Philadelphia, but maybe they can destroy the remnants of the rag tag barefooted upstarts...

But no, its worse than that! They lose yet another brigade as Stirn's Hessians are added to the casualty list. Five brigades of the Kings chosen have suffered irreplaceable losses while exacting less than half as many casualties on the rebels. But neither commander is happy, it was a bloody day. Nevertheless, it was a major American victory, the British thought they could sweep Washington aside like an annoying gnat, but Washington made a complete asp of himself!