Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Kings Mountain full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Kings Mountain ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125001140X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book King's Mountain written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the New York Times bestselling author--the first Ballad novel to feature the epic, and gorgeously-portrayed, American Revolution John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted lover to his mistress, Virginia Sal, Patrick becomes a delightful anti-hero under McCrumb's watchful eye. Through varying perspectives, King's Mountain is an elegant saga of the Carolina Overmountain Men--the militia organized by Sevier (who would later become the first governor of Tennessee) and their victory in 1780 against the Tories in a battle that Thomas Jefferson later called, "The turning point of the American Revolution." Peppered with lore and the authentic heart of the people in McCrumb's classic Ballads, this is an epic book that will build on the success of The Ballad of Tom Dooley and her recent return to the New York Times bestseller list. Featuring the American Revolution, this a huge draw to readers old and new, and special to McCrumb who can trace her lineage to the character John Sevier"--
Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The battle of Kings Mountain, 1780, with fire and sword written by Wilma Dykeman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Dunkerly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844255
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Kings Mountain written by Robert M. Dunkerly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, 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.
Author : Melissa Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041589560X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
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.
Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781510766433
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the little-known history of the turning-point battle of Kings Mountain, one of the most decisive American victories in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Kings Mountain was the most remarkable, unexpected, and unorthodox patriot victory of supreme importance that was fought during the course of the American Revolution. The victors of Kings Mountain were South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina Backcountry volunteers (including men from today’s Tennessee) of a ghost army that suddenly materialized practically out of thin air from both sides of the Appalachian Mountains on its own and without authorization from the Continental Congress or Continental officers. To defend their farms and families and the land they loved, on October 7, 1780, this ad hoc force of Backcountry volunteers from remote settlements across the frontier suddenly descended upon a well-trained and well-equipped force of more than one thousand Royal Provincial and Loyalist troops, who defiantly made their last stand on the summit of Kings Mountain, after having been caught by surprise. During one of the hardest fought and bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, this one-sided (the entire enemy force—the vital left wing of Lord Charles Cornwallis’ Army—was killed, wounded, and captured) patriot victory at Kings Mountain was a major turning point of not only the war in the South, but also of the American Revolution. Ironically, no battle of the American Revolution more forcefully demonstrated the lethal effectiveness of Southern militia and the future surreal horrors of America’s first civil war. This decisive battle in northwest South Carolina was fought between fellow Americans, including not only neighbors but also relatives, even fathers and sons, nearly three-quarters of a century before the Battles of First Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, when young Americans once again slaughtered each other for what they believed was right. When it appeared at the time that the war in South Carolina had been lost to the British, the patriots of Kings Mountain rose splendidly to the challenge to win an amazing success that best personified the essence and spirit of the revolution, which the victors kept alive during one of the darkest periods of the American Revolution. Most importantly, the dramatic patriot victory at Kings Mountain on October 7, 1781 helped to set the stage and pave the way for the surrender of Cornwallis’ Army at Yorktown only a year later, which was an event that all but ended the war and ensured the independence of a new nation.
Author : Katherine Keogh White
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806303832
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
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.
Author : Bobby Gilmer Moss
Publisher : Scotia Hibernia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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.
Author : Randell Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976914938
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Before They Were Heroes at King's Mountain (Virginia Edition) written by Randell Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the campaign, fighting, and aftermath connected to the Battle of King's Mountain and the British Southern Campaign during the American Revolution.
Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
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 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Rendell
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kings of the Mountains written by Matt Rendell and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time Matthew Rendell tells the little-known story of a Latin American country in which cycling is the national sport, whose sportsmen, denied the enormous benefits of prosperity, cutting-edge technology and unlimited sponsorship, have nevertheless achieved prodigious cycling feats both at home and abroad, and helped to forge for Colombia a heroic national identity. He tells of how, during the fifties, Colombia's own top cycle race, the Vuelta de Colombia, was still being held on dusty, unpaved roads - with consequentially ghastly accidents; of how the first top European cyclists who came to race in Colombia found themselves utterly vanquished by its endless mountain climbs; of how the biography of Colombia's first cycling superstar was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Then, following the story through to the seventies and eighties, he shows how Colombia's cyclists began to make their mark abroad, even in the ultimate competition, the Tour de France - and, while they may have lacked the team discipline and the pace training to win the race itself, how to them the premier accolade was to become King of the Mountains, by beating everyone else in the Tour's most drainin
Author : Dave Dameron
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745126
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Dave Dameron and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels, a hardy group of "over-the-mountain men" from Tennessee vowed to defend their families and farms. At Kings Mountain, in northwest South Carolina, this small volunteer contingent of frontiersmen met the British in early October. The American victory there forced the British to retreat and turned the tide in the American Revolution's southern campaign.
Author : Susan Hart Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Kings Mountain National Military Park written by Susan Hart Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Stack
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 073859797X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Sharon Stack and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gold rush in the 1790s brought people to an area in North Carolina known as White Plains. With the promise of prosperity from the gold rush and an abundance of land suitable for farming, the area was soon settled by Scotch-Irish and German pioneers. As the railroad was being built, officials asked the local postmistress to name the new railroad station. She chose Kings Mountain, after the Revolutionary War battle fought eight miles south. Over time, Kings Mountain has flourished with industries, churches, education, and cultural institutions while the friendly, hardworking residents have found success in the mines and textile mills. Kings Mountain looks back over 100 years of the city's residents as they work, study, worship, play, and celebrate their heritage.
Author : Robert Wilburn Brown
Publisher : Military
ISBN 13 : 9781596298293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (982 download)
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.
Author : Stacy Trevenon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738558295
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Stacy Trevenon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising 2,000 feet above the rural San Mateo County countryside, Kings Mountain rests atop the redwood-ribbed backbone of the California Coastal Mountain Range. Despite inhospitable terrain, its forests lured Spanish padres who envisioned a chain of missions along the California coast. The community grew as its stately Sequoia sempervirens toppled before the influx of sawmills that sprang up in the 1850s. Named for early entrepreneurs Frank and Honora King, the mountain's story features rough-and-tumble sawyers, genteel dairy farmers, ghost towns, subdivisions, summer cabins, schools, and storied hermits. The celebrated annual art fair began in 1963 to raise funds for fire protection and grew into a nationally respected event that draws thousands.
Author : Dale A. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435739922
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.
