139.Green Spring_CL_b - WDS American Revolutionary War
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| Turns: | 42 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | Continental Army |
| Second Side: | British |
Date: 06 July 1781 - Scale/Size: Company Level, Large - Location: Green Spring Plantation on the James River, ~15 miles W of Yorktown Virginia.
Scenario Briefing: Variant - Beginning in the morning of 6 July, The Pennsylvania Line and Light Infantry led by Brigadier General Anthony Wayne would skirmish with Crown forces headed up by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton making their way slowly to the British Camp south of the Green Spring Plantation. The Marquis de Lafayette, in overall command, moved along the river to reconnoiter. In the late AM, having pushed back the Provincial screening force, Wayne formed his troops up to attack what he felt was a weaker British force. Lieutenant General Sir Charles Cornwallis planned to draw the Americans in before striking, even going so far as to leave an abandoned cannon where the Americans would emerge. However, from Lafayette's vantage point, he saw that it was indeed a much larger, well positioned British force and Wayne was walking into a trap. Unable to stop him, Lafayette sent forward the reserve to extract Wayne and avert a disaster.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Intended to be played as the American forces against the AI but can be played from either side or Head-to-Head.
Further Reading: For the strategic view: Washington & Cornwallis by Benton Rain Patterson. For the tactical story, Yorktown 1781 by Brendan Morrissey.
Scenario Briefing: Variant - Beginning in the morning of 6 July, The Pennsylvania Line and Light Infantry led by Brigadier General Anthony Wayne would skirmish with Crown forces headed up by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton making their way slowly to the British Camp south of the Green Spring Plantation. The Marquis de Lafayette, in overall command, moved along the river to reconnoiter. In the late AM, having pushed back the Provincial screening force, Wayne formed his troops up to attack what he felt was a weaker British force. Lieutenant General Sir Charles Cornwallis planned to draw the Americans in before striking, even going so far as to leave an abandoned cannon where the Americans would emerge. However, from Lafayette's vantage point, he saw that it was indeed a much larger, well positioned British force and Wayne was walking into a trap. Unable to stop him, Lafayette sent forward the reserve to extract Wayne and avert a disaster.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Intended to be played as the American forces against the AI but can be played from either side or Head-to-Head.
Further Reading: For the strategic view: Washington & Cornwallis by Benton Rain Patterson. For the tactical story, Yorktown 1781 by Brendan Morrissey.
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