page_title: York County, South Carolina
section_title: Revolutionary War
hierarchical_section_title: York County, South Carolina / History / Revolutionary War
context_page_description: York County is a northern County in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 226,073. Its county seat is the town of York, and its largest city is Rock Hill. The county is served by one interstate highway, I-77.
  York County is part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Residents of the Upcountry were initially slow to take sides in the American Revolutionary War, content to remain neutral as long as left unmolested; the conflict was initially viewed as one between the British Crown and Charleston plutocrats. The New Acquisition entered into vocal opposition to Royal authority in 1780 only after three "invasions" of the region: the first by Banastre Tarleton and his "Green Dragoons", and two more by Lord Cornwallis. Most of the state had capitulated to the British after their capture of Charleston, but after the Waxhaw Massacre in nearby Lancaster County in May 1780, residents of the New Acquisition took part in a regional resistance.  Led by men such as William "Billy" Hill, William Bratton, and Samuel Watson, both the battles of Huck's Defeat and Kings Mountain, were fought in the New Acquisition.  These defeats forced Cornwallis northward, and led to his ultimate surrender at Yorktown.
caption: "Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton"; oil by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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