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To: PeteB570

Well, King’s Mountain had a lot going for it: Ferguson, the brilliat Scots soldier, commanding mostly Yankee Loyalists getting massacred by over mountain men. I will visit that place before I die...


13 posted on 01/10/2010 12:41:52 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

Hey. Ferguson had bad karma. Invents a nifty rifle, which the Brits don’t mass produce. Passes on sniping an American officer accross the lines, and Washington goes on to win the war, and eventually become our first President. Gets caught on King’s Mountain in a bad defensive position, and oh, well....


24 posted on 01/10/2010 1:19:05 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Pharmboy

Make it Memorial Day Weekend. Saturday is the best day.

They have a Military Through the Ages Program.


31 posted on 01/10/2010 1:39:29 PM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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