Battle of Clapp's Mill Image 2
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Alamance county, North Carolina 
When: 2 Mar 1781.
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British Redcoats under command of British Gen. Cornwallis and the butcher Banastre Tarleton fought against General Nathaniel Greenes and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee's ('Light-horse' Harry Lee) army at Clapps Mill on Beaver Creek, March 2, 1781, two weeks before the Battle at Guilford Courthouse. The battle resulted in the death of seventeen British and eight American soldiers. "Light-horse" Harry Lee was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's father.
Although Barnhardt "Barney" Clapp fought at the above mentioned Battle of Guilford Courthouse, no Clapp family member has been found to have fought at Battle of Clapp's Mill. Also Adam Clapp was known to have fought in the American revolution, but not at Clapp's Mill.
Location. 36° 2.108? N, 79° 31.607? W. Marker is in Burlington, North Carolina, in Alamance County. Marker can be reached from Huffman Mill Road.
The Clapp family had come into possession of the mill in 1768. George Valentine's Clapp brother, Johann Ludwig Clapp and his family, operated the Clapp mill.