Western Pioneers
delayed the movement of the British into North Carolina (A+)
The Green Mountain boys who captured the British held Fort Ticonderoga were led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold. The Green Mountain Boys were the militia of the Connecticut Colony as well as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Ethan Allen
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The British army, under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis, surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781.
The Battle of Kings Mountain was fought on October 7, 1780 at Kings Mountain, South Carolina, 9 miles south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The Patriot militia won a decisive victory over the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson. Ferguson was fatally shot during the battle.
delayed the movement of the British into North Carolina
delayed the movement of the British into North Carolina (A+)
The loyalists troops were under the command of Major Patrick Ferguson, from Scotland. Ferguson was the only regular British soldier involved in the battle. The rebel forces were a collection of small units from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, each with their own commander.
The Battle of King's Mountain was fought on October 7, 1780. King's Mountain is in South Carolina. Colonel William Campbell's Patriot forces largely defeated Major Patrick Ferguson's British troops. When the battle looked bleak for Ferguson, and he was unwilling to lose, he led a suicidal charge down the mountain, in which he and the majority of his troops were cut down by massive gunfire from the Patriots. After the charge, many of Ferguson's men attempted to surrender, but were shot down in cold blood by the Patriots, who were bitter over the treatment of South Carolina by the British. Ferguson's men suffered 157 killed, 163 wounded, and 633 captured, while Campbell's men suffered only 28 killed and 60 wounded.
The Battle of Kings Mountain, on 7th October 1780, was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia overwhelmed the loyalist militia led by British Major Patrick Ferguson.AnswerThe Americans won the Battle of King Mountain.
British Association of Mountain Guides was created in 1975.
A Loyalist force of 1,100 men, led by Major Patrick Ferguson, fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War. They were sent there by British general Lord Cornwallis to protect his army's left flank when he attempted to invade North Carolina. Major Ferguson's unit was surrounded by some 900 Patriots under Isaac Shelby, John Sevier and William Campbell on October 9, 1780 and after a bitter fight, in which Ferguson and 157 of his men had been killed and 163 severely wounded, they surrendered. The outcome of the battle made Cornwallis fall back to Winnsboro South Carolina, abandoning the invasion of North Carolina.
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British Association of International Mountain Leaders was created in 1993.
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