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Battle of Great Cane Brake
Part of the American Revolutionary War

American Revolution militia reenactors in upstate South Carolina (2016).
DateDecember 22, 1775
Location
Greenville County, near Simpsonville, South Carolina
34°39′22.02″N 82°18′58.98″W / 34.6561167°N 82.3163833°W / 34.6561167; -82.3163833
Result American victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Great Britain British Loyalists Battle of Great Cane Brake South Carolina militia
Commanders and leaders
Capt. Patrick Cunningham Col. Richard Richardson
Maj. William "Danger" Thomson
Strength
500 1,300
Casualties and losses
6 killed
wounded unknown
130 captured
1 wounded

The Battle of Great Cane Brake was a skirmish fought on December 22, 1775, during the American Revolutionary War in what was then Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, modern Greenville County.

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