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EPISODE · May 14, 2016 · 13 MIN

The Battle of Kings Mountain

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In 1780, the Patriot cause was suffering from losses across the colonies. Then, a British commander threatened to cross the Appalachians and lay waste to the settlements established in what is now East Tennessee, and that changed everything. Around 1400 militia were mustered from Southwest Virginia, present-day East Tennessee and Western North Carolina and set […]

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