"Battle of Cowan's Ford"@en . . . . . . . "The Battle of Cowan's Ford was a battle in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780\u20131782 Campaign that eventually led to the British Army's surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on at Cowan's ford on the Catawba River in northwestern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, between a force of about 5,000 British and fewer than a thousand Americans who were attempting to slow the British advance across the river. The American general William Lee Davidson was killed in this battle."@en . . . "The Battle of Cowan's Ford was a battle in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780\u20131782 Campaign that eventually led to the British Army's surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on at Cowan's ford on the Catawba River in northwestern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, between a force of about 5,000 British and fewer than a thousand Americans who were attempting to slow the British advance across the river. The American general William Lee Davidson was killed in this battle."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . .