With Fire and Sword
Author | : Wilma Dykeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : King's Mountain, Battle of, 1780 |
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Author | : Wilma Dykeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : King's Mountain, Battle of, 1780 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : WILMA. DYKEMAN |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033163405 |
Author | : Wilma Dykeman |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1978 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilma Dykeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2001-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780160616433 |
Author | : Wilma Dykeman |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780331565171 |
Excerpt from The Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780: With Fire and Sword For F arther Reading leaves turning hillsides into Persian carpets of color; of chilly moon-washed nights and hot drow sy noondays; of ripeness and harvest. Corn, the succulent maize adopted by pioneers from their Indian neighbors, is gathered in bin and shock. Tobacco cures to a golden pungence. Pumpkins splash the fields with color, and orchard bees suck the sweet juices of apples that have fallen to the ground. Seeds sowed in the spring past, roots planted in long-ago decades, bring forth their yield. In just such an October in 17 80, another, quite different but no less inevitable harvest was gathered in an unlikely corner of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. The place was called Kings Mountain, although it wasn't royal (named for an early settler rather than the distant resident of Windsor Castle) and, indeed, at the negligible height of only a few hun dred feet above the surrounding countryside, not even much of a mountain. But there, on an early October afternoon 5 years after the beginning of the Revolution, King George and his ministers' misunderstanding of the nature and needs of their faraway rebellious colonies, and the British com mand's misconceptions of the American character ripened into a confrontation that marked a turning point in the war. If events influenced by the patriot victory at Kings Mountain reached far beyond that brief time and place, so, too, did events initiating the struggle at Kings Mountain reach far back in time and place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Lyman Copeland Draper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : King's Mountain, Battle of, 1780 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lyman Copeland Draper |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2024-05-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385447607 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
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Author | : Melissa Walker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 041589560X |
Through government documents, autobiographies, correspondence, this book presents a look at the Southern backcountry that engendered its role in the Revolutionary War; with attention to political, social, and military history.
Author | : Dave Dameron |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2009-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786745126 |
In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels, a hardy group of "over-the-mountain men" from Tennessee vowed to defend their families and farms. At Kings Mountain, in northwest South Carolina, this small volunteer contingent of frontiersmen met the British in early October. The American victory there forced the British to retreat and turned the tide in the American Revolution's southern campaign.