Jenny Findsen 9/30/21 Jenny Findsen 9/30/21

Video: Kings Mountain

Here is a short video done by the History Channel that give some background on The Battle of Kings Mountain. In the video it talks about the roles played by the Watauga settlers and the Overmountain men.

Jenny Findsen 9/27/21 Jenny Findsen 9/27/21

The Battle of Kings Mountain

In the fall of 1780, for the first-time colonists fought colonists. British general Charles Lord Cornwallis sent colonial tory Major Patrick Ferguson to North Carolina to recruit loyalist militia and to protect Cornwallis’s left flank as the General moved his forces through the Carolinas.