An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . together, began a rapid pursuitHalting at Gilbert town, they selected sixteen hundred of their bestriflemen, and hurrying on, overtook the Tories encamped at KingsMountain. Arranging themselves in three divisions, under ColonelsCleaveland, Shelby, and Campbell, they attacked by turns, and onbeing repulsed, retired but a little distance, re-formed, and againadvanced. Ferguson charg
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . together, began a rapid pursuitHalting at Gilbert town, they selected sixteen hundred of their bestriflemen, and hurrying on, overtook the Tories encamped at KingsMountain. Arranging themselves in three divisions, under ColonelsCleaveland, Shelby, and Campbell, they attacked by turns, and onbeing repulsed, retired but a little distance, re-formed, and againadvanced. Ferguson charged again and again with the only inspired his assailants to greater exertions, and afteran hours fighting, he fell, mortally wounded, and his survivingtroops, numbering eight hundred, surrendered. One hundred andfifty fell dead in the action, and as many more were hundred stand of arms were also captured ; the Americanloss was small: but among the dead was the lamented ColonelWilliams. During these operations in the south, General Washington was socramped in resources for supplying the army, and surrounded bydifficulties of so formidable a nature, that he found it impossible to. STATE OF THE ARMY 401
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