Download or read book The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens written by Melissa Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through government documents, autobiographies, correspondence, this book presents a look at the Southern backcountry that engendered its role in the Revolutionary War; with attention to political, social, and military history.
Download or read book Kings Mountain and Cowpens written by Robert W. Brown Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rocky slopes of Kings Mountain to the plains of Hannah's Cowpens, the Carolina backcountry hosted two of the Revolutionary War's most critical battles On October 7, 1780, the Battle of Kings Mountain utilized guerilla techniques - American Over Mountain Men wearing buckskin and hunting shirts and armed with hunting rifles attacked Loyalist troops from behind trees, resulting in an overwhelming Patriot victory. In January of the next year, the Battle of Cowpens saw a different strategy but a similar outcome: with brilliant military precision, Continental Regulars, dragoons, and Patriot militia executed the war's only successful double envelopment maneuver to defeat the British. Using firsthand accounts and careful analysis of the best classic and modern scholarship on the subject, historian Robert Brown demonstrates how the combination of both battles facilitated the downfall of General Charles Cornwallis and led to the Patriot victory in America.
Download or read book A Devil of a Whipping written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command of Banastre Tarleton. The victory at Cowpens helped put the British army on the road to the Yorktown surrender and, ultimately, cleared the way for American independence. Here, Lawrence Babits provides a brand-new interpretation of this pivotal South Carolina battle. Whereas previous accounts relied on often inaccurate histories and a small sampling of participant narratives, Babits uses veterans' sworn pension statements, long-forgotten published accounts, and a thorough knowledge of weaponry, tactics, and the art of moving men across the landscape. He identifies where individuals were on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they saw--creating an absorbing common soldier's version of the conflict. His minute-by-minute account of the fighting explains what happened and why and, in the process, refutes much of the mythology that has clouded our picture of the battle. Babits put the events at Cowpens into a sequence that makes sense given the landscape, the drill manual, the time frame, and participants' accounts. He presents an accurate accounting of the numbers involved and the battle's length. Using veterans' statements and an analysis of wounds, he shows how actions by North Carolina militia and American cavalry affected the battle at critical times. And, by fitting together clues from a number of incomplete and disparate narratives, he answers questions the participants themselves could not, such as why South Carolina militiamen ran toward dragoons they feared and what caused the "mistaken order" on the Continental right flank.
Download or read book Battle of Cowpens and Kings Mountain S C written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Printing and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle of Cowpens and Kings Mountain S C written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Printing and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Kings Mountain Eyewitness Accounts written by Robert M. Dunkerly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal moment in American history, as told by our forefathers On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and statements in their original form - the soldiers' own words - unedited and unabridged. Rife with previously unpublished details of this historic turning point in the American Revolution, described as the war's "largest all-American fight," these accounts expose the dramatic happenings of the battle, including new perspectives on the debate over Patriot Colonel William Campbell's bravery during the fight. Robert M. Dunkerley's work is an invaluable resource to historians studying the flow of combat, genealogists tracing their ancestors and anyone interested in Kings Mountain and the Southern Campaign.
Download or read book Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Cowpens South Carolina written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Mountain and Cowpens written by Robert Wilburn Brown and published by Military. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rocky slopes of Kings Mountain to the plains of Hannah's Cowpens, the Carolina backcountry hosted two of the Revolutionary War's most critical battles On October 7, 1780, the Battle of Kings Mountain utilized guerilla techniques - American Over Mountain Men wearing buckskin and hunting shirts and armed with hunting rifles attacked Loyalist troops from behind trees, resulting in an overwhelming Patriot victory. In January of the next year, the Battle of Cowpens saw a different strategy but a similar outcome: with brilliant military precision, Continental Regulars, dragoons, and Patriot militia executed the war's only successful double envelopment maneuver to defeat the British. Using firsthand accounts and careful analysis of the best classic and modern scholarship on the subject, historian Robert Brown demonstrates how the combination of both battles facilitated the downfall of General Charles Cornwallis and led to the Patriot victory in America.
Download or read book Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens South Carolina Classic Reprint written by United States Army War College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens, South Carolina Under the confederated leaders, who commanded at Kings Mountain, were a few refugees from the lowlands, some small groups from the counties east of the mountains, and a large number of mountain and backwater men whose independence was being threatened by an alien invader. In answering the call to embody under their local leaders, there existe'd the definite unders'tanding among these mountain men that they were going into the lowlands to fight, and that they would not return to their homes until they, or Ferguson, had been defeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens South Carolina written by Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens South Carolina written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Statements Concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and the Battle of the Cowpens South Carolina written by United States. Army war college, Washington, D. C. Historical section and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Mountain and Its Heroes written by Lyman Copeland Draper and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cowpens National Battlefield written by Cameron Binkley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Cowpens written by Kenneth Lewis Roberts and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1958 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief account of the battle which was the psychological and military turning point of the American Revolution.
Download or read book The Patriots at Kings Mountain written by Bobby Gilmer Moss and published by Scotia Hibernia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vol. lists, in alphabetical order & with annotations, Revolutionary War patriots who fought at Kings Mountain in York County, South Carolina.
Download or read book The King s Mountain Men written by Katherine Keogh White and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1966 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given by Eugene Edge III.
