Battle of King's Mountain

The Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, was one of the few major battles in the Southern colonies during the Revolutionary War. In this war, General Thomas Young set up a horseshoe defense around King's Mountain in order to make the British and their Tories fall into a trap. General Patrick Ferguson moved his men out of North Carolina and was ordered by General Charles Cornwallis to take the whole colony. The British and Tories were defeated, and 668 were captured as POWs. Cornwallis ordered all of his forces out of South Carolina after the battle.