THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN (PT 1) 1780 WHEN COUNTRY BOYS KICKED REDCOAT A......S

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

1780 was the darkest year of the American Revolution, as the British, embarking on a plan to subjugate the American South, which they felt contained much more Loyalist support, won battle after battle against incompetent American generals -namely Gen.Benjamin Lincoln who surrendered 4,000 troops at Charleston and General Gates- whose blunders cost another 2,000 American soldiers to be killed or captured. It was then that British Major Ferguson, hoping to finally squelch American resistance for good- made his threat against the frontiersmen who occupied the western and frontier borders- and these men decided they had had enough of the British. They mounted up, grabbed their Pennsylvania rifles, crossed the mountains, and let freedom ring.

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0:36.0	the story of the Battle of Kings Mountain the turning point in the American War of
0:40.6	Independence and a battle which every American student of history or not should know.
0:47.0	A few notes to share with you before our story begins.
0:50.0	The first note being that I'm going to take time telling this story because it deserves it.
0:55.2	But 1780 and 1781 and the Southern campaign tend to get ignored, yet they're the most important to the outcome of the American Revolution and the freedom
1:05.7	we enjoy today.
1:08.3	Today we tend to forget the price that was paid by so many for the fragile freedom we have. We tend to forget that the
1:15.0	American Revolution lasted for eight long and bloody years, that Americans were
1:20.5	deeply divided and used as pawns by the British to achieve Britain's dream of subjugating North America.
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