Determines to enter South Carolina....

Lord Cornwallis resolves to march to Virginia.
[Sidenote: 1780.] [Sidenote: Transactions in South Carolina and Georgia.] In the South, Lord Cornwallis, after having nearly demolished the American army at Camden, found himself under the necessity of suspending, for a few weeks, the new career of conquest on which he had intended to enter.

His army was enfeebled by sickness as well as by action; the weather was intensely hot, and the stores necessary for an expedition into North Carolina had not been brought from Charleston.

In addition, a temper so hostile to the British interests had lately appeared in South Carolina as to make it unsafe to withdraw any considerable part of his force from that state, until he should subdue the spirit of insurrection against his authority.

Exertions were made in other parts of the state, not inferior to those of Sumpter in the north-west.