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Kings Mountain BattlegroundYork CountySouth Carolina
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Kings Mountain National Military ParkThe sacrifices and significance of what happened on this mountaintop echo loudly through two centuries of American history. Five times-in 1815, 1855, 1880, 1909, and 1930-great crowds of Americans from far and …
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Gunshots and the shouts of hundreds of men battered the slope you see just ahead as one of the fiercest battles of the American Revolution broke out. Every man here that day knew that the Carolina backcountry had burned and bled since May when the…
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This distinguished race of men are more savage than the Indians,and possess every one of their vices, but not one of their virtues. I have known...these fellows(to) travel 200 miles through the woods never keeping any road or path, guided by the s…
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In these woods, dazed Tories hurriedly buried their fallen comrades, using only logs and rocks. Dr.Uzal Johnson of the New Jersey provincials spent the night with the several hundred men with wounds, tending friend and foe alike. At dawn, a long l…
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Imagine hundreds of men, dressed more or less alike, heart still pounding from the fever of battle, milling around this hillside as the sun sets. Whigs and Tories both sleep on wet, cold ground, amid the groans of wounded and dying men.
The reb…
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To the memory ofCol. Patrick FergusonSeventy-First regiment.Highland light Infantry.
Born in Aberdeenshire.Scotland in 1744.Killed October 7, 1780in action atKing's Mountain while in command ofthe British Troops.
A soldier of militarydistinc…
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The chaos of battle roared along this ridge top. Piercing the din of gunfire and wounded men's groans, Ferguson's silver whistle shrilled, rallying his Tories. Two horses were shot out from under him; Ferguson seemed to be everywhere at once.
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In Honor ofLieutenant Colonel James HawthornCommander ofColonel William Hill's RegimentYork County TroopsIn the Battle of Kings Mountain7 October 1780 Colonel Hill having been disabledBy wounds ReceivedIn a former Engagement
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Hard pressed on every side, Ferguson's men fell back to their camp, which lay in the saddle of the ridge you see just ahead. As some Tories tried to surrender, bullets continued to pour into their ranks from all directions. Too late, they saw they…