Battle of Lindley's Mill

Battle of Lindley's Mill
Part of the American Revolutionary War

A portion of Thomas Kitchin's 1781 map of North Carolina, depicting Hillsborough, the Haw River, and Lindley's Mill on Cane Creek (spelled here "Lindsey's M.")
DateSeptember 13, 1781
Location35°53′23″N 79°20′50″W / 35.889711°N 79.347188°W / 35.889711; -79.347188
Result Loyalist victory
Belligerents
Patriot militia Loyalist militia
Commanders and leaders
John Butler
Robert Mebane
John Nall 

David Fanning +

Hector McNeill 
Archibald McDugald
Strength
300 600
Casualties and losses
24 killed
90 wounded
10 captured
27 killed
90 wounded

The Battle of Lindley's Mill (also known as the Battle of Cane Creek) took place in Orange County, North Carolina (now in Alamance County), on September 13, 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. The battle took its name from a mill that sat at the site of the battle on Cane Creek, which sat along a road connecting what was then the temporary state capital, Hillsborough, with Wilmington, North Carolina.