The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: an Animated Map

A generalized animated map showing highlights of the battle at Guilford Courthouse located in present day Greensboro, North Carolina.

This animation has been altered from the original movie completed as part of my Master's Degree requirements at the University of North Carolina and Greensboro, Department of Geography in 2001. The music has been stripped due to obscure usage rights and several sound effects were updated or removed. An animated legend sounding off the units has been removed as well since it never added much to the movie.

Sound effects (musket and cannon fire) and some photos come from a reenactment in 2004. One of the groups featured during the reenactment is the 4th Coy, Brigade of Guards (http://brigadeofguards.org/).

Some of the historic maps used to create this animation:

http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/battle_of_guilford_courthouse.htm

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/32guilford/32images/32map2b...

http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-guilford.htm

http://etc.usf.edu/Maps/pages/1800/1856/1856.htm

http://bygones.ebaypix.net/battleguilford.jpg

For more information on the battle and park, please visit the Guilford Courthouse website: http://www.nps.gov/guco/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• revolution
• war
• british
• americans
• geography
• animated
• map
• cartography
• greensboro
• north
• carolina
• greene
• cornwallis

[hurro67]

LOL Britain actually won this war and battle.

[MercatorsHammer]

@hurro67 Battle, not the war... but I understood your meaning. Hey, with the fascination many people here in the U.S. had over the recent royal wedding you would think Britain had won the war. :)

[steve5123456789]

It was 79.

[MercatorsHammer]

@steve5123456789 79 what? :)

[hotspur2514]

This is awesome!

[hurro67]

@MercatorsHammer Yeah 2 Billion people watched. You may have won that war, but then we burnt your white house down ;) haha. Im just joking about, I love Americans. Britain was by far the most powerful country throughout 17th,18th,19th and half way in to 20th century you must admit, that is a long reign of power!

[jed371]

the british were outnumbered 3 to 1

[imsailing2]

Thanks so much for the wonderful visual of this battle. I have at least 3 Great (x5) Grandfathers who fought in this battle. They were Robert Thompson, who served as a private under General Gates & lived near this battle; John Thomas Caffey, who enlisted in the Maryland Independent Company under Washington & LaFayette. And the 3rd one was Elias Baker, under General Rutherford.

[koolman280]

Can you please tell me what program you used to make this? My dad is a huge civil war buff and is greatly interested in this.

[McGrenzer]

A "soldier sandwich"?!

[wryguy007]

WELL done.....thanks for the video, thanks for the good work...

[steve5123456789]

79 killed in action on the US side, and 93 killed on the British side; not 92.