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Commemorating Pyle’s Defeat on February 25, 1781, there is a stone marker with a bronze plaque detailing the battle at the intersection of Old Trail Road and Anthony Road in Burlington, North Carolina. Pyle’s defeat epitomizes the brutal nature of the ������ Revolution in the southern backcountry. Here, the Revolution resembled a civil war, and local Patriot and Loyalist militias clashed in a series of struggles that ultimately culminated in Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.