Posted on 10/13/2021 12:28:38 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1780, American Revolution patriots hanged nine captive loyalist prisoners in North Carolina, in the wake of the Battle of King’s Mountain.
Although the colonials would ultimately accomplish their break with the British Empire, the British and their local loyalists had a strong run in a southern campaign from about 1778.
But even at their acme, the redcoats could not extend their writ westward past the Appalachian Mountains, into the frontiers where hunger to swallow up Indian land made for ferocious adherence to the pro-independence cause, since the Crown was trying to limit settler expansion in those zones. The ones who turned their muskets against their king would become known as the “Overmountain Men” — and the Battle of King’s Mountain was their glory.
Feeling their oats after thrashing Horatio Gates‘s rebel army at the Battle of Camden — seen here in the Mel Gibson/Heath Ledger movie The Patriot —
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If my memory serves me correctly, one of my descendants is among this group that was hanged. Thanks for posting.
WRONG! My ancestor was hanged by the British. Never mind.
I love time travelers.
My 6th GGM was imprisoned in Fort Dayton, NY with her daughters and little grandchildren by the rebels She was in her 60s My 4th GGM was 10 A 16 yo granddaughter was raped and murdered by the rebels
This must have given James and Claire Fraiser food for thought.
We might find out in November.
These things happen if you take a wrong turn with the Delorean...
LOL
Those backwoodsmen who fought so well against the British were largely Scots-Irish refugees whose fathers had fled from Royal persecution in Great Britain. Their hatred for the Crown had little to do with “hunger for Indian land”.
Were your ancestors loyalists? Very sad either way. My 5th GGF was an escaped Irish debt slave. He had no trouble picking sides.
I can believe in time travel, but I can’t believe in a DeLorean reaching 88 mph.
Many Scots came over after the Jacobite Rebellion. Having studied multiple civil wars believe the Revolutionary War was more a civil war and The Late Unpleasantness aka American Civil War was a war between the states
LOL!
Believe it. :-)
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