What the records say
- When
- 26 Jun 1781
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 37.32° N, 76.80° W
- Description
- 1781 American Revolutionary War battle
Battle of Spencer's Ordinary
Battle of the American Revolutionary War
The Battle of Spencer's Ordinary was an inconclusive skirmish that took place on 26 June 1781, late in the American Revolutionary War. British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette respectively, clashed near a tavern at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg,…
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