The Battle of King’s Mountain The Battle of Kings Mountain was a pivotal battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The actual battle took place on October 7, 1780, nine miles south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in York County, South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia. The Battle of King’s Mountain was a key point of the American Revolution because of its major participants, war strategies, and its significance overall outcome to the Revolution. In May of 1780, Major Patrick Ferguson was appointed Inspector of Militia. He was tasked with marching to the old Tryon County area, raise and organize Loyalist units from the Tory population of the Carolina Backcountry, and protect the left flank of Lord Cornwallis' main body at Charlotte, North Carolina.
It carried on all the affairs of a separate government and making a major war until defeated in 1865. Their way of life that was based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the seven states of the South Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas seceded from the Union during the following months. When the war began with the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, they were joined by four states of the upper South Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
osé Francisco de San Martín (25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ðe san marˈtin]), was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, in modern Argentina, he left his mother country at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain. In 1808, after taking part in the Peninsular War against France, San Martín contacted South American supporters of independence from Spain. In 1812, he set sail for Buenos Aires and offered his services to the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, present-day Argentina. After the Battle of San Lorenzo and time commanding
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The organism level is linked to an organism which is any living individual. All of the other 5 levels of the body make up the organism. The system level is used because Jamie is looking at different systems of the body, he looks at the chest of one patient, a sprained ankle of another and the abdomen of a child. These body parts are in different systems. ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form X-rays will show organs, recognizable as distinct structures within the body.
The Patriot: Fact or Fiction----Events Benjamin Martin's raid on Fort Wilderness: Throughout the film beginning in the opening narration, references are made to Benjamin Martin's actions in the French and Indian War from his opening narration to the South Carolina Assembly to Major Jean Villeneuve's angry responses to Martin's authority. Benjamin refused to answer his son Thomas when questioned about it. Later in the film, Benjamin is finally ready to tell Gabriel what happened at Fort Wilderness: "The French and Cherokee had raided along the Blue Ridge. The English settlers had sought refuge at Fort Charles. By the time we got there, the fort was abandoned.
Ryan Dunkleberger HIST 1301-10 Professor Robertson The First Inaugural Address “As Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded from the Union. More threatened to follow and the nation was on the edge of civil war. Lincoln pleaded for peace, the continuation of the Union, and the preservation of the Constitution. This address was an appeal to the nations sense of community, and the idea of all men uniting for the common defense of freedom, which the Constitution stood for.” During a time of unrest in the country and shortly before the civil war, President Lincoln relied on the Constitution in an attempt to draw the people together, but also tried showing them when the Constitution would apply to the States. During his inaugural speech, which was directed more to the people of the South, and was intended to succinctly state Lincoln's intended policies and desires toward that section, where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
Adelbert Ames was born October 31st, 1835, and died on April 12th, 1933 born in Rockland, Maine. Ames is known as a carpetbagger that is referred to “northerners who held office in the South after the Civil War”. Adelbert was Union officer and Reconstruction governor of Mississippi. Military life has always interested him, and accomplished an appointment to the United States Military Academy. In1861, he entered the service as a second lieutenant of artillery.
He would later serve at many different posts and under the command of several prestigious generals. He served under such generals as John J. Pershing, Douglas Macarthur, and a few others (Biography: Dwight David Eisenhower). By 1936 Eisenhower was promoted to the rank of permanent lieutenant colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general on October 3, 1941 (Biography: Dwight David Eisenhower). Although his administrative abilities had been noticed, on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II he had never held an active command above a battalion and was far from being considered as a potential commander of major operations (Biography: Dwight David
john Dixon, Virginia 1861, and his fellow Sigma Chi brothers within the Confederate army. This small band of soldiers establish the chaper on the night of Septemeber 17, 1864 , during the Atlanta campaign of the Civil War. The location of this monumental event is vaguely descibed as “a few miles southwest of Atlanta,” which has now been determined to be near present day Jonesboro, Georgia. Dixon stated the reasons for which the war-time chapter was created saying, “It was ascertained that a number of the fraternity were in the army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta campaign in 1864. It was conceded that the South was forever disunited from the general government, and it was assumed that all chapters throughout the South would cease to exist.