Show 04 4 1 I f john sevier 1 I 1 i forever remembered for glorious victory at kings mountain fill kings mountain country still wild and picturesque was stark wilderness in the lays days when the backwoods men wearing leather jerkins and bearing flintlock muzzle loading firearms charged up the seemingly impregnable slope in the face of fire froni from 1100 well armed troops under col patrick ferguson a crack officer of george III I 1 under leaders such as C col 01 ol john sevier who had come from warfare with the french and indians in the west the valley pioneers gathered to turn the loyalists back to the sea their answer to fergusons Fergus ons shout of crush the rebels was to to gain the top of the ridge and take more than lial half f his men captive with ferguson out of the reckoning cornwallis had bad to concentrate his army yorktown was then only a year away As a military exploit despite the thoroughness of the victory the battle in itself was of small import yet in its effect it was another bennington coming as asit it did at a time when hopes were lowest and it seemed the low burning name flame of the patriotic cause waa about to flicker and die it heartened and stimulated the whole country and put an end to the wanton cruelty of tory groups which harl persecuted patriots and driven them from hotnes homes throughout tin tilt south |