Kings Mountain

Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125001140X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King's Mountain written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the New York Times bestselling author--the first Ballad novel to feature the epic, and gorgeously-portrayed, American Revolution John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted lover to his mistress, Virginia Sal, Patrick becomes a delightful anti-hero under McCrumb's watchful eye. Through varying perspectives, King's Mountain is an elegant saga of the Carolina Overmountain Men--the militia organized by Sevier (who would later become the first governor of Tennessee) and their victory in 1780 against the Tories in a battle that Thomas Jefferson later called, "The turning point of the American Revolution." Peppered with lore and the authentic heart of the people in McCrumb's classic Ballads, this is an epic book that will build on the success of The Ballad of Tom Dooley and her recent return to the New York Times bestseller list. Featuring the American Revolution, this a huge draw to readers old and new, and special to McCrumb who can trace her lineage to the character John Sevier"--

Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The battle of Kings Mountain, 1780, with fire and sword written by Wilma Dykeman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King's Mountain and Its Heroes written by Lyman Copeland Draper and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randell Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976914938
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain (Virginia Edition) written by Randell Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the campaign, fighting, and aftermath connected to the Battle of King's Mountain and the British Southern Campaign during the American Revolution.

Author : Melissa Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041589560X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens written by Melissa Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through government documents, autobiographies, correspondence, this book presents a look at the Southern backcountry that engendered its role in the Revolutionary War; with attention to political, social, and military history.

Author : Robert M. Dunkerly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844255
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Kings Mountain written by Robert M. Dunkerly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and statements in their original form—the soldiers’ own words—unedited and unabridged. Rife with previously unpublished details of this historic turning point in the American Revolution, these accounts expose the dramatic happenings of the battle, including new perspectives on the debate over Patriot Colonel William Campbell’s bravery during the fight. Robert M. Dunkerley’s work is an invaluable resource to historians studying the flow of combat, genealogists tracing their ancestors and anyone interested in Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign.

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781510766433
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the little-known history of the turning-point battle of Kings Mountain, one of the most decisive American victories in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Kings Mountain was the most remarkable, unexpected, and unorthodox patriot victory of supreme importance that was fought during the course of the American Revolution. The victors of Kings Mountain were South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina Backcountry volunteers (including men from today’s Tennessee) of a ghost army that suddenly materialized practically out of thin air from both sides of the Appalachian Mountains on its own and without authorization from the Continental Congress or Continental officers. To defend their farms and families and the land they loved, on October 7, 1780, this ad hoc force of Backcountry volunteers from remote settlements across the frontier suddenly descended upon a well-trained and well-equipped force of more than one thousand Royal Provincial and Loyalist troops, who defiantly made their last stand on the summit of Kings Mountain, after having been caught by surprise. During one of the hardest fought and bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, this one-sided (the entire enemy force—the vital left wing of Lord Charles Cornwallis’ Army—was killed, wounded, and captured) patriot victory at Kings Mountain was a major turning point of not only the war in the South, but also of the American Revolution. Ironically, no battle of the American Revolution more forcefully demonstrated the lethal effectiveness of Southern militia and the future surreal horrors of America’s first civil war. This decisive battle in northwest South Carolina was fought between fellow Americans, including not only neighbors but also relatives, even fathers and sons, nearly three-quarters of a century before the Battles of First Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, when young Americans once again slaughtered each other for what they believed was right. When it appeared at the time that the war in South Carolina had been lost to the British, the patriots of Kings Mountain rose splendidly to the challenge to win an amazing success that best personified the essence and spirit of the revolution, which the victors kept alive during one of the darkest periods of the American Revolution. Most importantly, the dramatic patriot victory at Kings Mountain on October 7, 1781 helped to set the stage and pave the way for the surrender of Cornwallis’ Army at Yorktown only a year later, which was an event that all but ended the war and ensured the independence of a new nation.

Author : G. Clifton Wisler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780688178130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King's Mountain written by G. Clifton Wisler and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Frank leaves his mountain home in South Carolina to help the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.

Author : Dave Dameron
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745126
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Dave Dameron and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels, a hardy group of "over-the-mountain men" from Tennessee vowed to defend their families and farms. At Kings Mountain, in northwest South Carolina, this small volunteer contingent of frontiersmen met the British in early October. The American victory there forced the British to retreat and turned the tide in the American Revolution's southern campaign.

Author : Bobby Gilmer Moss
Publisher : Scotia Hibernia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriots at Kings Mountain written by Bobby Gilmer Moss and published by Scotia Hibernia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vol. lists, in alphabetical order & with annotations, Revolutionary War patriots who fought at Kings Mountain in York County, South Carolina.