Glad to see there is another Morgan fan on this site.
Did you know his great-great grandfather was the uncle of privateer and pirate Henry Morgan?
Morgan, WV was named after him when WV was still part of Virginia.
Morgan was quite the man. He at one point owned an estate of 250,000 acres and used Hessian pow’s to develop it.
At Cowpens he knew his militiamen wouldn’t stand against British regulars. The night before the battle he went from fire to fire telling the militiamen he needed only two volleys from them and they could retreat.
They fired two volleys and retreated.
Thing was, Morgan chose Cowpens because his back was to the Broad river and left no avenue of retreat. It was win or die.
He also knew his enemy and knew Tarleton was headstrong and vain. Morgan used Tarletons weaknesses against him.
Kind of reminds me of a fella named Trump.