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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 (14 km) south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. [4] [5] The park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain, a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.
The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVHT) is part of the U.S. National Trails System, and N.C. State Trail System. [1] It recognizes the Revolutionary War Overmountain Men, Patriots from what is now East Tennessee who crossed the Unaka Mountains and then fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
While they were present at multiple engagements in the war's southern campaign, they are best known for their role in the American victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The term "overmountain" arose because their settlements were west of, or "over", the Blue Ridge, which was the primary geographical boundary dividing several of the ...
Second Battle of Martinique: April 17, 1780: Martinique: American nvictory Battle of Lenud's Ferry: May 6, 1780: South Carolina: British victory Bird's invasion of Kentucky: May 25-August 4, 1780: Virginia: British victory Battle of St. Louis: May 25, 1780: Louisiana (present-day Missouri) Patriot-Spanish victory Battle of Waxhaws: May 29, 1780 ...
Captain Abraham de Peyster (18 February 1753 – 19 February 1798) was an American-born military officer who was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.He is best known for leading a Loyalist force during the Battle of Kings Mountain and for helping to settle United Empire Loyalist refugees in New Brunswick.
Samuel Wear (1753–April 3, 1817) was an American Revolutionary War soldier who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain. He was one of the early inhabitants of, and a founder of, the "Lost State of Franklin". He later helped draft the Constitution of the State of Tennessee.
Joseph Greer (8 August 1754 – 23 February 1831), known as the Kings Mountain Messenger, was an American frontiersman best known for his delivery of the message of victory against the British at the Battle of Kings Mountain to the Continental Congress in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War.