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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.
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The Loyalist "American Volunteers", were led by British Army commander, Major Patrick Ferguson, into the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, in which, Ferguson was shot dead, from his horse, by Patriot "Overmountain Men" and the American Volunteers were virtually annihilated, as a fighting force, in the most disastrous, British-Loyalist defeat, of ...
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Frederick Hambright (May 1, 1727, n.s.– March 9, 1817) was a military officer who fought in both the local militia and in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He is best known for his participation in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
Whereas, Colonel James Steen was a prominent militia officer in the American Revolution, serving from 1775 to 1781, in the Snow Campaign, Commanding Price's Fort, serving in Georgia, then at Stono, Savannah, Charleston, the Battle of Rocky Mount, the Battle of Hanging Rock, the Battle of Musgrove's Mill, the Battle of King's Mountain, and the ...
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.
Pages in category "Battles in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War 1780–1783" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .