THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN (PT 2) TURNING POINT OF THE REVOLUTION
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 heroes, legends, histories and mysteries and |
| 0:32.1 | part two of the Battle of Kings Mountain, a decisive |
| 0:36.2 | victory for American Patriots, and a crushing loss for not only the British, but more importantly, the loyalists that had joined the British |
| 0:44.2 | throughout the South trying to crush Patriot resistance. The American Revolution |
| 0:49.8 | as it was fought in the South was America's first bloody civil war, a prolonged battle between |
| 0:55.5 | those who wanted to live and thrive as subjects of a foreign king who had staked his claim on American |
| 1:00.8 | soil and those who wanted to live free and rule their own lives and country. |
| 1:06.4 | And the British made every effort to divide them politically and pit them against each other. |
| 1:11.6 | At one point, at least in the southern states, wondering if they |
| 1:14.7 | would kill each other off entirely. The lower south, a region more often associated |
| 1:21.0 | with the American Civil War of 1860 was ravaged as no other |
| 1:25.2 | section of America during the American Revolution. The war in the South went a long way |
| 1:30.8 | in deciding the final Patriot victory and set the stage for the British defeated Yorktown in 1781. |
| 1:38.0 | As explained briefly in Part 1, the southern campaign began with British concern over the course of the war in the north. |
| 1:46.9 | Failure at Saratoga, fear of French intervention, |
| 1:50.2 | an overall failure to bring the rebels to heal persuaded British military |
| 1:54.4 | strategist to turn their attention to the south. Some in Britain even |
| 1:59.3 | suggested that New England, that hotbed of sedition, was a lost cause anyway and not worth the effort, |
| 2:06.2 | temporarily or even permanently. |
| 2:09.7 | The British did have some success in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, not to mention their long occupation of New York City, |
| 2:16.0 | but failed to consolidate their efforts. |
| 2:19.0 | They appeared, in fact, to lack any overall strategy to crush the rebels. |
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