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<p>This map, published in Lyman Copeland Draper’s 1929 book <em>King’s Mountain and Its Heroes,” shows the topography and location of the Battle of King’s Mountain. Major Patrick Ferguson’s Loyalist troops had set up their encampment at the top of King’s Mountain on October 6th, 1781. The Continental force, made up of a combined group of volunteer militia from the Tennessee hills, North and South Carolina, and four hundred Virginians under the command of Colonel William Campbell, surrounded Ferguson’s troops almost completely and attacked on October 7th, taking Ferguson by surprise. The Continental victory at King’s Mountain prevented the British from assembling a large Loyalist military force, which had been key to their strategy in the South.</p>
