Event · Significance tier 3 · provisional assessment
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Cornwallis drove Greene's army from the field at Guilford Courthouse but suffered losses his smaller force could not readily replace.
- Category
- armed conflict
- Episode relations
- 1
- Selection basis
- film anchored
Episode coverage
Episode 6
set piece · spoken: caption verified
Visual check: not checked
Why this coverage: The episode develops Greene's layered deployment, the fighting, Cornwallis's costly victory, and the decision to leave the Carolinas for Virginia.
Caption entry: 00:46:54.178 · 00:55:20.183
Why it matters
The British tactical victory accelerated strategic exhaustion and helped push Cornwallis toward Virginia, where naval and coalition conditions would change the campaign.
Why this provisional tier
This tier predates canonical assessment v1. It remains a research hypothesis and must not be used as settled label priority.
Guilford linked Greene's war of attrition to Cornwallis's move toward the Chesapeake, making consequence diverge from possession of the battlefield.
Guilford Courthouse is a useful check on result labels: the army that held the field moved closer to strategic defeat.