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vcre tion, ^vcrc nost 5gle. hem itish cials ated iting west orth tand ship lUv- and tune tlina ling! A tribute to the Overmountain Victory Trail Marchers TuMdoy. OctobM 21. ISW-KUKSS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Pos* 3 ConUfrom page 2 tacks on the frontier settlements and to massacre and scalp un warned and unprotected men, women, and children. in subsequent times Corn wallis' subordinate. Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, a regular British officer, rightly earned for himself the op- probious nickname “Bloody Ban” by the numerous bar barities he practiced upon the Scotch Irish in South Carolina. For example, on one occasion he exhumed from the grave in which it had lain for six weeks the corpse of a highly respected Whig, Brigadier General Richard Richardson, and ex plained that this ghoulish act was motivated solely by his desire to “look upon the face of such a brave man.” Cir cumstances indicate, however, that the opening of the grave was motivated by the suspicion that family treasures might have been buried in it. After this ghoulish act, Tarleton committed another atrocity similar to those he perpetrated elsewhere at other times. He herded the cattle, swine, and poultry of the Richardsons into a barn, set the barn afire, and had them con sumed in the ensuing flames. On other occasions Tarleton wantonly slaughtered in cold blood American soldiers who were seeking to surrender and pleading for quarter. It is not sur prising that thereafter Southern Whigs often entered combat with the war cry: “Remember Tarleton's quarter.” During the weeks preceding the Battle of King’s Mountain, another one of Cornwallis’ subordinates. Major James Wemyss, a British regular, and his Tory confederates deliberate ly devastated an area 70 miles long and 15 miles wide lying along BlacI River, Lynches Creek, and the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. In so doing, Wemyss and his confederates robbed known Whigs of their tangible possessions, wantonly slaughtered their cattle and swine, burned their homes, and in some cases murdered them. These atrocities boomeranged against the British and Tories. Instead of cowering the Scotch Irish into submission, they im planted in them the implacable resolve to fight to the death for American independence. The significance of the Battle of King’s Mountain cannot be rightly appraised by studying it in isolation. If one is to unders tand its tremendous impact on America’s fight for freedom, he must consider it in the light of related events which preceded and followed it. F all Bazaar Is Scheduled By Recreation Department Kings Mountain Parks and Recreation Department will be sponsoring a Fall Bazaar on Sat., Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Gymnasium of the Kings Mountain Neighborhood Facili ty Center. Any groups or individuals in terested in participating and sell ing any articles on that day are urged to contact the Neighborhood Facility Center tis soon as possible. There are only a limited number of table set-ups available, which consist of 2-8 ft. long tables and will rent at $10 for the entire day. Reservations will be taken up until all setHips are Mid out. or until Fri., Nov. 14, whichever coems first. Reservations can be made at the office of the Kings Mountain Neighborhood Facili ty Center, Room 102, located at 208 N. Cleveland Avenue. All table set-ups area selec tions will be done on a first- come, first-served basis ai registration. For more information on the Fall Bazaar, please call the Kings Muntain Neighborhood Facility Center at 739-3549. All proceeds from this bazaar will go towards a Universal Weight Machine to be used in the physical fitness room of the Center. East Fourth Graders Earn Books For Running Ten fourth graders of East Elementary School entered the Speeding Car Cuts Power Off Cont. from page 1 operating his 1977 Pontiac at a high rate of speed on rain slick roads. The car left the road in the pouring rains and clipped a city utility pole, spun around and hit a parked car in the driveway of the home of Joe Bridges. Bell was taken to Kings Mountain hospital for treatment and also charged with reckless driving and exceeding safe speed. Damages from the wreck were excessive. Bell’s car was damag ed approximately $4,000, the ci ty d^age was placed at $3,000 and Bridges 1970 Cadillac was damaged approximately $250, according to police reports. Pvt. Montgomery In Basic Training Private Steven K. Mon tgomery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ozie Montgomery of Kings Mountain is attending basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. During the training, students receive instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, military courtesy, military justice, first aid, and Ar my history and traditions. TRUSTEES MEET The Cleveland Technical Col lege Board of Trustees will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 21, beginning with dinner at 6:30 pjn. in the Conference Room in the 2100 Building on Tech Campus. BJUCE SALE, BAZAAR The Ladies Auxiliary of Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a hot dog supper Saturday beginning at II a.m. at the Fire Depart ment. A bake sale, yard sale, and bazaar, featuring crafts, will also be featured during the day. Battle of Kings Mountain Rotary Run. Each child was sponsored by a Kings Mountain citizen who pledged a book to the school library if the runner completed the race. All ten runners finished and earned 10 books for the East School Library. Runners were Toni Aldrich, Amanda Ball, Tammy Hamrick, Ann Hawkins, John Hill, Brian Rockholt, Candy Taylor, Christa Weld, Malon William son and Angela Woods. These fourth graders are students of Mrs. Cynthia Wood. Preceding related events make it plain that at the time the Bat tle of King’s Mountain was fought the American cause in the South had become well-nigh hopeless. I describe these events: Sir Henry Clinton, the Com mander in Chief of British forces in America, decided to transfer the main theatre of hostilities from the North to the South. His decision was motivated by the conviction that by so doing the British could subjugate South Carolina and Georgia and deprive the other states of their aid. Accompanied by a vast naval force under Vice Admiral Mar riott Arbuthnot and several thousand English regulars and their Hessian and Tory allies in transports. Sir Henry sailed from New York, and by March, 1780, laid seige to Charleston, S.C., the most important Southern port, by land and sea. Unfortunately Major General Benjamin Lincoln, an inept Con tinental officer from Massachusetts, was in command of all the disciplined Continental troops in the South. He unwisely left only 200 of them in the field, and permitted Clinton to bottle up all the others as well as vast numbers of the militia in Charleston. He offered an uninspiring resistance to Clinton until May 12, 1780, and on that day surrendered the entire defen ding force of 7,000 Continentals and militia to him. This disaster left South Carolina prostrate before the enemy and severed Georgia from the other states. Governor John Rutledge fled the state to escape capture and possible assassination and set up a government-in-exile in distant Hillsborough, the then capital of North Carolina. Manifestly, he was handicapped in his efforts to govern South Carolina effective ly from that distance. The only military units left in South Carolina to oppose the British and Tories were small bands of militian composed in large part of the Scotch Irish who had settl ed along the Santee, the Black, and the Pee Dee Rivers. These small bands repeatedly emerged from their hide-aways in the South Carolina swamps and forests and made surprise guerrilla attacks with their own meagre resources upon detachments of the British and the Tories. They acted under the inspiring commands of Francis Marion, ’The Swamp Fox,” and Thomas Sumter, ‘The Game Cock”, and other partisan leaders. The fall of Charleston con vinced Clinton that his Southern mission had been accomplished. He delegated the British com mand in the South to Lord Charles Cornwallis, assigned him the mission of holding South Carolina and Georgia and con quering North Carolina, and returned to New York with 4,500 of his troops. George Washington recom mended that the Continental Congress assign Major General B.F.Manerm Agency REALTOR* , Insurance & Real Estate 739-6411. "HE WORKS FOR YOU" TT ACROSS 1.* Aovontogo of mtfooonOont OQont 6 Moot 10 fost 11 toiM or lonHouf 12 Fomity momOor 13. * Tfio moiimum eloim i>«vOf •icooOi IS i^pufor euN 17 ' Adomortoi Uvtrtg fiportso (Abbr.l 10 KipNrtg bey 20. Throo Profii 21 Doc 23. lunrtv food 2S * Agoot roorosoftnng mony eomoootoB 21. Thotrs not to wHy " 29 ^ of on dddrou m 0 C. 30 Iditor'i eoncorrt 31 090. - 33 Ootonod'i tttto 34 9ropoBttton 37 ' tniurortc# Ousmow mon 39 lortn 9T#ti« 40 SmoN COSO 42 Ofond - Nonor«dt 9ork 44 of WIrtdior 4S. Scornful sound ‘MNO-A-MU CIUM DOWN 1. Tibotonpnost 2. 9roeiout storto 3. Whoroi.A. It 4. 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Its action was undoubtedly prompted by the popular acclaim erroneously crediting Gates with the American victory over English General John Burgoyne at Saratogo. In reality, this victory was attributable to Generals Philip Schuyler and Benedict Ar nold rather than Gates. Regret tably Arnold afterwards became a traitor to America. Before Gates went South to assume his new command, a nor thern neighbor, Charles Lee, gave him this warning: “Take care lest your Northern laurels turn to Southern Willows.” Gates assumed the command of the army DeKalb was leading on Deep River in North Carolina. Notwithstanding none of the troops had been battle- tested except the relatively small groups of the Delaware and Maryland Continentals and Col onel Armand’s Legion, and not withstanding his army was debilitated by hunger and dysentery. Gates recklessly push ed forward by forced day and night marches to attack Corn wallis, who had concentrated some 2,200 battle-tested veterans at Camden, S.C. In the ensuing Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, Gates’ forces suffered what has been described by some historians as the “most disastrous defeat ever inflicted upon an American army.” The gallant DeKalb, and the battle-tested Continentals who stood and fought cornwallis, were slaughtered. Other members of Gates’ army who did not flee were captured. While no accurate account of their casualties is available, American losses in killed, wounded, and captured have been estimated at above 2,000. The British suf fered 68 killed and 245 wound ed. Gates himself departed hastily from the battlefield on the fastest horse in his army and did not stop to rest until he reached Charlotte, N.C., 60 miles from Camden. After sleeping there, he continued his personal retreat on the two succeeding days and established headquarters at Hillsborough, N.C. about 180 miles from Camden. He then at tempted to rebuild his army. After he crushed Gates at Camden, Cornwallis planned to invade North Carolina, set up headquarters in Charlotte, enlist Nonh Carolina Tories, and sub jugate the State. He undertook to safeguard his plans against the only substantial hazard he apprehended — an at tack on his left flank by Whigs from the Western backwoods and mountains. Cornwallis assigned the task of protecting his left flank to a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, Major Patrick Ferguson, a career officer, who commanded a well trained regiment known as the American Volunteers, which had been recruited for British service among the Tories of New York and New Jersey. Cornwallis was convinced that Ferguson would perform this task successfully. He knew Ferguson to be a brave man, who was known for displaying at times a spirit of chivaliV and for disapproving of “Bloody Ban” Tarleton’s wanton blood- thirstness. He was convinced that Ferguson could speak with piersuasive power to the western Whigs, most of whom were also of Scottish blood. Cornwallis ig nored the fact, however, that the western Whigs knew that Ferguson deemed the plundering and burning of the homes of Whigs an appropriate method of subduing them. nriTin -CAR DEALERS- We would welcome the opportunity to help you with the following items: Decals, odometer mileage statements, business cards, letterheads, envelopes, vehicle sales forms, memo pads, receipt books, key tags, windshield sticker tags. Also, book matches, advertising specialities and calendars. We'll be glad to visit you at your convenience. DOVER PRINTING SALES Shelby, N.C. 482-3588 Gibson APPLIANCE AND APPLIANCES IcOLOR TV SALEI RCA COLOR TV’S iFE-441 RCA PORTABLE COLOR GER-695L COLOR CONSOLE TV Gibson ,vi viUv“ Frost ★Clear Model HT17F 17.0cu.ft. 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