A good title!
235 years ago today my 5 times Great-grandfather and his sons stood in the militia line of Natty Green's Southern Army to fire at the king's army. I walked the ground for myself in April 2013. You can take a walk via this C-SPAN video. There was an anniversary reenactment last Saturday and historical events. Cool. The United Sates Army Center for History has a good account of the battle.
The battle is key, because the cost of the fight leads Lord Cornwallis to move North. Eventually placing his army on a peninsula at a place named Yorktown.
"I never saw such fighting since God made me. The Americans fought like demons"
-- Lt. General Charles, Earl Cornwallis.
After the war some of the sons received the land bounty for service from the State of North Carolina and moved Westward and settled a place called Tennessee.
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