Cumberland Gap

A misty morning at the Pinnacle at the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park

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Cumberland Gap is the name of a situated on 488 meters altitude mountain pass in the Cumberland Mountains, a mountain range of the Appalachians. He became famous in the 18th and 19th century as a major route of white settlers into the interior of North America. The pass was part of the Wilderness Road, a former Indian trail that Daniel Boone expanded with 35 men.

The pass was named after William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, after some squares are named in North America after the Battle of Culloden. The passport changed four times during the American Civil War, the occupier. In 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant, the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap took the campaign against Tennessee. Grant is said to have said, mutatis mutandis: with two brigades at Cumberland Gap I could hold the pass against the army, which led Napoleon to Moscow.

Today the Cumberland Gap is a National Historical Park and parts of the Wilderness Road can be seen at Wilderness Road State Park in Virginia.

  • Pass in the United States
  • Mountain pass
  • Appalachian
  • National Historical Park, Memorial or Battlefield (United States)
  • Geography (Kentucky)
  • Geography (Tennessee )
  • Geography (Virginia)
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