August 27, 1781 — Elizabethtown. 🇺🇸
Dawn. Col. Thomas Owen’s Patriot militia crept up on the Tory camp at Tory Hole and attacked.
The Tories — neighbors, planters, men from Bladen County itself — were routed in a running fight. The Revolution in the Carolinas was a civil war, fought between people who’d known each other for years.
Two months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.
The battle is still remembered every August at Tory Hole Park — the 245th anniversary was just celebrated.
Drive 45 minutes inland from our beaches, and you’re standing where it happened.
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