The Battle of Kings Mountain: Colonel James Johnston, commanding the North Carolina Militia defeats, a numerically superior loyalist militia, commanded by Major Patrick Ferguson, of the Army of Great Britain.

       [restored 8/14/2021]

Subsequent Events:

9/8/1781                   3/7/1782

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 29.

Battle of Kings Mountain – Wikipedia
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