SHELBY'S FORT REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL
GENERAL EVAN SHELBY ERECTED AT FORT HERE IN 1771 THAT SHELTERED AND PROTECTED AND SENT VICTORIOUS FORCES TO THE BATTLES OF POINT PLEASANT, LONG ISLAND FLATS AND CHICAMAUGA TOWNS. HERE WAS CONCEIVED BY SHELBY, CAMPBELL AND SEVIER AN EXPEDITION TO KINGS MOUNTAIN WHERE THE ENTIRE BRITISH FORCE WAS KILLED OR CAPTURED ON OCT 7, 1780.
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Listing Details
- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1927
- 314 7TH STREET
- 37620
- STANLEY AND TERRIE HOWARD
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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