Battle of the Combahee River

Battle of the Combahee River
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Date August 27, 1782 Location Beaufort and Colleton Counties, outside Beaufort, South Carolina 32°34′57″N 80°34′24″W / 32.58250°N 80.57333°W / 32.58250; -80.57333 Result British victory
Belligerents
United States	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Mordecai Gist John Laurens †	William Brereton
Strength
200 regulars	150 regulars
Casualties and losses
2 killed 19 wounded[1]	Unknown

The Battle of the Combahee River took place during the American Revolutionary War on August 27, 1782, near Beaufort, South Carolina, one of many such confrontations after the Siege of Yorktown to occur before the British evacuated Charleston in December 1782. Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, a 27-year-old Southern abolitionist, previously a diplomat and an aide-de-camp to George Washington, who was lauded as "one of the bravest and most gallant of the American officers," was killed during the confrontation.^[2]