Although this illustration is the Highland Jacobite army of 1745, the Highlanders that marched to Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776 would have looked similar clad in their tartans and kilts. (Library and Archives Canada)
Map of Moore’s Creek Bridge campaign.
(From J.P. MacLean, Flora MacDonald in America.)


General Thomas Gage
1718-1787


Col Richard Caswell
1720-1789

John Alexander
Lillington
1725 - 1786


William Tryon (1729-1788)
Royal Governor of North Carolina (1765-1771)
and the Province of New York (1771-1780,
though he did not retain much
power in the colony beyond 1777).





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