The battle of Cowpens was fought in the colony of South Carolina and it was the British assumption that they would make short work of the rebel forces...in the southern colonies with a minimum of effort on their part. Unfortunately for them this was a grave miscalculation and they would pay the price with lost lives, lost cannon and the inevitable retreat into Yorktown where they finally surrendered with no conditions to save face and pretend it was a negotiation and not a defeat.This following. You can. That puts you in the top forty percent."He had a point. A good one. But my sour mood stayed with me until I got home. My apartment was in a nice part of the city with a good view. Okay, a great view. But Adrienne helped with the rent. She could have paid it all, if she wanted to, and she wasn't even working full time ... yet, despite her plans to.Adrienne.That was a big part of my problem. She was already farther ahead than me. Most of her contracts more were worth more than mine. She. She now realized that the long curly hair was not blond as she had thought in the dark but a rustic red that reached his shoulders, even his lashes, eyebrows and beard were red.She was not used to men looking at her, it made her even shyer. She turned her eyes to look down at this handsome, rich man’s hand with its long slim fingers that still held her now warm hands, as she whispered her response.“This coming December I will be twenty-one. I’m from Manila, and my father named me after himself.. I had to go and fall in love with a TEACHER - a FEMALE teacher, for God's sake!But God! I never dreamed of the torture being in her class would heap upon me! Every day is like a knife twisting in my guts as I wander, oblivious, through the rest of my schoolday, living only for third period. For art class. For HER art class! Then I'm there, and it's even worse!Her face, her presence, her voice, her scent permeate the atmosphere around me, and I can do nothing about it! To top it off, I'm cursed.