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Battle of Eutaw Springs

8 September 1781
South Carolina
Victory for Great Britain

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

USA (Am Army, 2,200 men under Greene) attacked Great Britain (Br Army, 2,000 men under Stewart) in South Carolina. The CAA Database of Battles records 3.9 hours of fighting on a front of 0.4 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense and prepared defense, and that Great Britain held. Losses: USA 554 (25%), Great Britain 693 (35%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

USA

Greene

Unit	Arm	Men
USA left wing	Infantry	514
USA centre	Infantry	685
USA right wing	Infantry	514
USA reserve	Infantry	428
USA artillery (4 guns)	Artillery	60
Greene	Commander	—
In this plan		2,201

Great Britain

Stewart

Unit	Arm	Men
Great Britain left wing	Infantry	462
Great Britain centre	Infantry	616
Great Britain right wing	Infantry	462
Great Britain reserve	Infantry	385
Great Britain artillery (5 guns)	Artillery	75
Stewart	Commander	—
In this plan		2,000

What the sources report

	USA	Great Britain
Strength, this plan	2,200	2,000
Losses, this plan	554	693

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 95, “Eutaw Springs”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 3.9 hours
Winner: the defender
Terrain: Flat, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Autumn, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense, Prepared defense
Front width: 0.4 km (attacker), 0.4 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
USAattacker	2,200	554	0	4	Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew
Great Britaindefender	2,000	693	0	5	Defensive plan

Attacker’s advantages intelligence +2 · surprise +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 95 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Eutaw Springs · CC-BY-SA-4.0

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