{"id":2253,"date":"2025-06-30T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nodanights.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2025-07-10T04:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:33:54","slug":"trading-ford-yadkin-river-greenes-escape-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodanights.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/trading-ford-yadkin-river-greenes-escape-route\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Trading Ford (Yadkin River) \u2013 Greene\u2019s Escape Route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nodanights.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1880&amp;action=edit\">Edit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Trading Ford (Yadkin River) \u2013 Greene\u2019s Escape Route<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-a93f3441-bbcc-4621-abe6-b8ea399e6b23\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-a0b4921c-4784-4494-802c-1dfd99a7b309\"><strong>\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Trading Ford (Yadkin River) \u2013 Greene\u2019s Escape Route<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-91856624-8bff-47e5-9507-7e1d3591753b\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Trading Ford<\/strong>, located about <strong>7\u202fmiles northeast of Salisbury<\/strong>, served as a key crossing on the Great Wagon Road in <strong>Feb 1781<\/strong>, letting Greene&#8217;s army cross safely around <strong>February 2<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dncr.nc.gov\/blog\/2024\/01\/12\/trading-ford-l-24?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> loc.gov+15dncr.nc.gov+15amrevnc.com+15<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greene\u2019s forces used available <strong>boats, bateaux, and canoes<\/strong> at the crossing \u2014 taking all of them across \u2014 and forced Cornwallis&#8217; army to wait behind until they eventually moved to <strong>Shallow Ford<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amrevnc.com\/trading-ford\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> amrevnc.com+1dncr.nc.gov+1<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This crossing wasn\u2019t just opportunistic; it fulfilled Greene\u2019s plan to flank Cornwallis with a swift northward push toward <strong>the Dan River<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanacorner.com\/blog\/race-to-dan-river?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> americanacorner.com<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-6ac8bbc7-1a62-4bbb-8edb-d3809cd536c9\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-77edebf8-fcbc-48bb-b38f-7b46696c6a11\"><strong>\ud83d\udee4\ufe0f Routes &amp; Timeline \u2013 Charlotte \u2192 Yadkin \u2192 Guilford<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol id=\"block-25d7b4ec-5c44-4f11-8902-61be49eaf949\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Late-January 1781<\/strong>: Greene leaves Charlotte, moves <strong>northeast<\/strong> toward the modern Cabarrus\u2013Rowan line, using Ninth Mile Creek as a rallying spot.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>February 2, 1781<\/strong>: Reaches <strong>Trade Ford<\/strong>, crossing the Yadkin River en masse, depriving Cornwallis of easy pursuit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dncr.nc.gov\/blog\/2024\/01\/12\/trading-ford-l-24?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> outlandernorthcarolina.com+14dncr.nc.gov+14carolana.com+14<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Immediately after<\/strong>: Cornwallis followed but waited on the far side, then found an alternative crossing at <strong>Shallow Ford<\/strong>, several miles upriver<a href=\"https:\/\/amrevnc.com\/trading-ford\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> amrevnc.com+1dncr.nc.gov+1<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greene continued <strong>northeast toward the Dan River<\/strong>, setting the stage for the <strong>Battle of Guilford Courthouse<\/strong> on <strong>March\u202f15, 1781<\/strong>.<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit\u00a0|\u00a0\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Trading Ford (Yadkin River) \u2013 Greene\u2019s Escape Route \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f Trading Ford (Yadkin River) \u2013 Greene\u2019s Escape Route \ud83d\udee4\ufe0f Routes &amp; 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