The Overmountain Men consisted mostly frontiersmen armed with long rifles, battle experienced by fighting Native Americans. But up on the rocky forested Kings Mountain waited loyalists to the British ...

The Battle of Kings Mountain explores one of the pivotal battles that shaped American history. Offering a profound understanding of the sacrifices made for freedom and the enduring legacy of those ...

Major James Cozby was the surgeon for Colonel John Sevier’s Washington District Regiment which fought in part at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The battle was a military engagement between ...

The battle of Kings Mountain fought on October 7, 1780, was an important American victory during the Revolutionary War. It was the first major victory after the British invasion of Charleston ...

The decision provided Patriot forces with some of the best riflemen during the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was a turning point of the campaign. From then on, revolutionary forces controlled the ...

The anniversury of this event was celebrated with great eclat at King's Mountain, S. C. There was a general gathering from the Carolinas, East Tenaessee, and Western Virginia. The battle ...

But if you had been around in 1780, you would have known them as a hardy, determined band of Patriots who played a key role in the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain. We pay tribute to them ...

GAFFNEY - Col. James Williams, an Upstate resident mortally wounded during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Kings Mountain, will receive a military promotion more than two centuries after he ...