JOHN SEVIER AND THE OVERMOUNTAIN MEN The British surrender at Yorktown was set in motion in East Tennessee when John Sevier and the Overmountain Men marched to South Carolina and crushed the Loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
It’s easy to forget that the towering figures of America were regular people, too, with all the same human experiences as the rest of us. I was touched to learn recently, for instance, that the teenaged George Washington, insecure about his...
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