The Battle of King's Mountain was an engagement of the American War of Independence fought on October the 7th, 1780. ColonelFerguson, with 1200 men, had been despatched by Charles Cornwallis to scour the highlands of South Carolina and enlist the Tories. Ferguson soon found the backwoodsmen rising against him, and was closely beset by 3000 militia. He took a position at King's Mountain on the border between the Carolinas. In. his rear was a precipice, and in front woods and broken ground. One division of the Americans lured him from his position, and the other two then attacked his flanks. Ferguson himself fell, and 389 of his men were killed, 716 were taken prisoners. The Americans lost their leader, Colonel James Williams. Of their troops twenty-eight were killed and sixty wounded. Research Battle of King's Mountain
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