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Title	Battle Monument of Alamance, Burlington N.C.
Caption	"First Battle of the Revolution" May 16th, 1771. This monument dedicated 1880, is nine miles from Burlington, N.C. The inscriptions on the four sides, read as follows, "Here was fought the Battle of Alamance, May 16th, 1771 between the British and the Regulators" -- "Liberty" -- "First Battle of the Revolution" -- "1880." The British numbered 1100, their killed and wounded 81. Regulators, 2,000, their total loss about 200. The former were commanded by Gov. Tryon, whose order was not at first obeyed, when he in great anger repeated "Fire-- fire on them or fire on me." The Battle lasted two hours. The Regulators being poorly armed and short of ammunition, could not successfully cope with Tryon's forces and soon took to tree fighting and later dispersed to escape capture and execution, which fate, however, overtook several of the leaders and others. Referring to Wheeler's History of North Carolina, the conclusion of his version, reads as follows, "Here was the first blood spilled in the United States in resistance to executions of English rulers and oppressions by the English government. Had this battle terminated differently (and five years afterwards such would have been the case), the banks of Alamance would be venerated as another Bunker Hill and Husbands, Merrill, and others ranked as Warrens and patriots of another day. No. C 8268 Published by Erwin A. Holt. Burlington, N.C. Printed in Germany.
Publisher	Erwin A. Holt, Burlington, N.C.
Description	View of a War of the Regulation monument showing the inscription: "Here was fought the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771, between the British and the Regulators."
Date	ca. 1905-1915
Subject (tgm)	Monuments
Subject Topical	Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic	Burlington (N.C.) Alamance County (N.C.)
Form General	Postcards
Language	English
Physical Description of Original	89 mm x 140 mm
Medium of Original	Paper
Collection in Repository	Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available online at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Local Identifier	P077;13-346
Citation	"Battle Monument of Alamance, Burlington N.C." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection	North Carolina Postcards
Repository	North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright	Public domain.
filename	P077-13-346.tif

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