Kings Mountain National Military Park

Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near the town of Blacksburg in the state of the United States South Carolina in the southeastern United States. The park is located on the border with neighboring North Carolina. He recalls the Battle of Kings Mountain, a decisive and important victory for the Patriots over the king Loyalists during the American War of Independence

The battle took place on October 7, 1780. The American patriots smashed while the left wing of the Army of the British commander Charles Cornwallis, ending the so far successful campaign of the Loyalists in the Carolinas. The victory ended the British advance into North Carolina and forced Cornwallis to retreat from Charlotte to South Carolina. This was Nathanael Greene the opportunity to reorganize the troops of the Army of the United States. Many of the soldiers who lost their lives in Kings Mountain, had previously fought in other battles. The youngest fighters were 10 years old, the oldest 50, the youngest was 15 years old Fallen Billy Rowland.

In order to remember the events of the battle, the establishment of the Kings Mountain National Park was approved on March 3, 1931 by the Congress of the United States. The park also marks the end of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, which commemorates the route of the Overmountain Men who rushed from the Appalachians cause, to participate on the part of the patriots in the battle.

Visitors to the park is a two and a half kilometers long Equipped way available, which follows from the visitor center from the former list of patriots and leads to the hill on which the British had taken a position. The road provides an overview of the battlefield and leads both the grave Patrick Ferguson, as well as a number of smaller and larger monuments over, the first of these monuments dates from the year 1815. Having the path in some places is very steep, this is in partially re-created under the initiative of the centenary of the National Park Service to help visitors find their use.

At the park, the Kings Mountain State Park and on, holds ready for visitors campsites and picnic areas and is on a living history farm, such as where people lived and worked there. The state park is located about 50 kilometers south of Charlotte, and about 100 kilometers north of the town of Greenville in South Carolina. The mountain, which gives the area its name, the Kings Mountain is several kilometers long to see from Interstate 85 North.