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The Southern Battlefield That Helped Forge a Nation

In the humid mist of a South Carolina dawn in October 1780, a band of ragtag militia fighters crouched low behind trees, muskets loaded and nerves high. They weren’t formally trained soldiers—just farmers, blacksmiths, and frontiersmen—but they had a cause. As British Major Patrick Ferguson stood atop King’s Mountain, unaware of the net closing in, a pivotal chapter in the American Revolution was about to be written.