Battle of Videau's Bridge

Part of the American Revolutionary War

Date	January 2, 1782
Location	Berkeley County, South Carolina
Result	British victory

Belligerents

United States

Great Britain

Commanders and leaders

Richard Richardson

John Coffin

Strength

unknown

350

Casualties and losses

57 killed
20 captured

1 killed
1 wounded

Southern theater
1780–83

Charleston
Moncks Corner
Lenud's Ferry
Waxhaws
Mobley's Meeting House
Ramsour's Mill
Huck's Defeat
Colson's Mill
Rocky Mount
Hanging Rock
Camden
Fishing Creek
Musgrove Mill
Wahab's Plantation
Black Mingo
Charlotte
Kings Mountain
Shallow Ford
Fishdam Ford
Blackstock's Farm
Cowpens
Cowan's Ford
Torrence's Tavern
Pyle's Massacre
Wetzell's Mill
Guilford Court House
Fort Watson
Hobkirk's Hill
Fort Motte
Augusta
Ninety-Six
House in the Horseshoe
Eutaw Springs
Lindley's Mill
Videau's Bridge
Wambaw
Combahee River
Chesapeake Bay

The Battle of Videau's Bridge was an engagement of the American Revolutionary War fought on January 2, 1782 near Charleston, South Carolina. The British routed an American force opposing a foraging expedition they sent from Charleston. The British claimed to kill 57 and capture 20 Americans.^[1]

Notes

↑ McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783, Macmillan & Co., ltd., 1902 pp. 589-593

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