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.
Watauga Assembly
The Watauga Settlement played an important role in the fight against the mighty British Empire during the American Revolution.