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"...the men who led the brave 'Burke* Boys' to fight with the soldiers of King George...". *Burke County, North Carolina
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| Home Of General William Campbell, Hero Of King's Mountain |
"It was at Quaker Meadow farm that the troops of the McDowells and of Campbell and Shelby and Sevier and Cleveland and Winston rendezvoused on the 30th of September, 1780, and it was under the great 'Council Oak,'...that they held their council of war before they marched away to crush the British leader at Kings Mountain."
"Here the patriots returned two weeks later with six hundred prisoners and the spoils of battle...".
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