They fought with honor in more Battles and Skirmishes, in both the Northern and Southern Campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, than any other British regiment.įollowing the Fall of Charleston to the British in May 1780, their Commander in the South, Lord Charles Cornwallis, ordered detachment from the two battalions of the 71st Fraser Highlanders to set uo an outpost at Cheraw Hills to further strenghten the British strategic line of defense. The Fraser Highlanders were recruited in Scotland in 1775 by their Clan Chief Simon Fraser, master of Lovat, to serve in the army of King George III. Encamped at Cheraw Hills in the summer of 1780 during the American Revolutionary War
