This shows the units at the start of the battle (more or less). I am still researching where the units on the side belong.

The R or M stands for Regular or Militia.

The number is the combat strength of the unit.

The # sign represents the movement factor for the unit, probably the game turns are 2 minutes long and that will allow units to march at the Quick Step at 3 Hexes/Turn or speed up to 4 hexes per turn for charging/running. I will also add a range factor since the US had a mess of rifleman that could shoot 400 - 800 feet with a fair chance of hitting.

I added a few trees - the battlefield was pretty well cleared and branches were chopped off as high as men on horseback could get (and any fences in the area dismantled) to provide fire wood.

If I was a talented artist, like my oldest daughter, I might try for a look like the photo with a mixture of snow and mud. But since I'm not, I'm just gong to leave it as is. The battlefield was not as forested as it is today and there was no underbrush having been set alight to reduce vermin and encourage pasture for cattle and any wood available within reach used for firewood.

The path is the walkway for the battlefield tour and is not the road that ran through the battlefield.

It was very open, so I will be putting in some trees and that will be that. This was a brilliant double envelopment of the British by the Americans, sometimes called the American Cannae.

I'm also talking with an archeologist who wrote two books on the battle and I've been there 3 or 4 times.

Here is a picture where the Continental Cavalry under Colonel Washington (a cousin of the General) engaged in a melee with Colonel Tarleton's Cavalry Legion probably around HEX 0719 in the map, near the small stream on the bottom left of the map.

This is my map of Cowpens battlefield. The battle was a near decisive action in the American Revolution, partially portrayed in the movie "Patriot". The victory here caused Cornwallis to retreat to Yorktown. It is interesting terrain, but not a lot of relief. Part of the brilliance of the American Commander was he defended from ground that resulted in the British shooting high because of they way they 'aimed' when they were shooting down hill.

I am interested in only a few battles during the 1700-1800s. Cowpens, Saratoga, Yorktown, Gettysburg (1st Day), and the Little Bighorn. I jump from ancients to Modern with those few stops.

Each Hex is 200 feet. (odd for me, usually I think in meters for this sort of thing.) The map will be about 12 inches by 18 inches when completed.

This is the battlefield today. There was not nearly as much forest.

This is the battlefield layout. The US is on the left in Blue, the British are on the right in red, attacking generally from the South to the North. (Today in NATO and the "West" Blue is "Friendly" and Red is "Enemy". In a British World War II history I read, I was confused because the British were in Red and the Germans were Blue.).

The battle was fought in December. There apparently was some snow on the ground, but only a scattering of trees, which I have not put in yet. The question is, how to portray a 'dusting' of snow?

EDIT: I forget to mention, the terrain colors come from the 48 Shades of Brown Palette Andre made for me, as well as 48 Shades of Green, 32 shades of Green and Blue, and one that has 32 shades with 16 green and 16 brown that sort of blend into each other.

Thanks, Sue. It was almost exactly as I imagined it from looking (and drawing) maps. !!!!