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Kings Mountain - The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the
American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took place on October 7, 1780, 9 miles south of the present-day town of Kings
Mountain, North Carolina in what is now rural Cherokee County, South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major
Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Foot. The battle has been described as "the war’s largest all-American fight".(Wikipedia)
Black and white reproduction of artist Lloyd Branson's Gathering of Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, which depicts the gathering of the Overmountain Men en
route to their victory over British loyalist forces at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. 1915; reproduction published 1921. Samuel G. Heiskell, Andrew Jackson and
Early Tennessee History, (Nashville, Tenn.: Ambrose Printing Co., 1921).(Wikipedia) |
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