[at-l] War but not THAT ONE!

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

Cornwallis was doomed the minute he decided to try and "cow" a bunch of
western appalachian mountain farmers! :)  I reckon he just didn't know
about our "animal" side - and that he was "udderly" doomed to be "sour
creamed!"

thru-thinker
[ducking and running from his PUNishment]


Bob C. wrote:

> The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVNHT) follows the
> Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia, today's eastern
> Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings
> Mountain, South Carolina, site of the Kings Mountain National Military Park.
>
> In 1780, the men crossed the Yellow Mountain Gap in an early snow storm. They
> mustered in the Gap and test fired their rifles. The air was so thin, one man
> reported, there was little noise from the reports.
>
> The mountain is named for the tulip trees (tulip or yellow poplar) covering its
> slopes. In the fall, just after the time when the Overmountain men crossed, the
> trees blaze yellow and gold. Remnants of the old Yellow Mountain Road are
> visible here and there. The Overmountain trail intersects the AT near the
> Overmountain Shelter, about 8 miles north of US 19E.
>
> The battle, fought October 7th, 1780, proved to be the turning point in the
> British Southern campaign. The American Continental army suffered successive
> defeats at Charleston, Waxhaws, and Camden, South Carolina, in the summer of
> 1780. By the fall, only the voluntary militia units remained in the field to
> oppose the armies of Cornwallis.
>
> To recruit and equip militia loyal to the British cause, Cornwallis sent Major
> Patrick Ferguson into the western Carolinas. He was to raise a loyal militia
> army and suppress the remaining Patriot militia. Intending to cow the Patriots,
> in September he sent a proclamation to the mountain settlements, telling them to
> lay down their arms, or he would march his army west, and "lay waste the
> countryside with fire and sword."
>
> The result was the march of the famous Overmountain men from the Sycamore Shoals
> of the Watauga River across the mountains in search of Ferguson. Overcoming
> hunger, weather, wrangling, and intrigue, the Patriots attacked and destroyed
> Ferguson's Loyalists at Kings Mountain.
>
> Weary, a Yankee who likes to remind southerners of their pre-Civil War Heritage.
> Some think the battle is as significant as the minutemen of Concord.
>
>
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