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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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more obstinately contested thanthis. It completely crushed the spirits ofthe loyalists, and it weakened beyond re-covery the royal power in Carolina. Dayis at hand, exclaimed an old patriot, whenhe learned of the victory. Bancroft says it changed the aspect ofthe war, while Jefferson eloquently de-clared the victory the joyful enunciationin the turn of the tide of success that ter-minated the revolutionary war with the sealof our independence. Yet Isaac Shelby,out of whose conception the triumph re-sulted, whose iron resolution made itpossible, is scarcely more than a name tothe youth of our land. The battle of Kings Mountain wasShelbys greatest service in the war forindependence, but by no means his last.Sevier to the south, Robertson to the west,Clark to the north and west, were holdingthe Indians in check, and Shelbys intrepidsoul was filled with desire to march eastonce more. A few months later GeneralGreene summoned him, and leading a troopof his backwoodsmen over the mountains,
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Brother was slain by brother when tory and patriot met. Drawing- by Stanley M. Arthurs. 82 The Outing Magazine he joined Marion. He led a stirring lifeduring a brief service under that romanticgeneral. He was in several skirmishes,but no desperate fights. He won a secondbloodless victory at this time when de-tached with Colonel Mahan to attempt thecapture of the British post at Fair Lawn.Arriving at the stronghold before day-light, Mahan demanded its surrender andwas defiantly answered. Preparations forassault being made, Shelby, doubtless re-membering a former experience, and real-izing how courage ebbs as danger nears,proposed another summons to be. made byhimself. Mahan assented, and Shelby metthe British commandant. The bitter andsanguinary feeling of the time, caused bymutual outrages of patriots and loyalists,is illustrated by the parley. Shelby toldthe British officer that as the storming ofthe fort must be accompanied by loss oflife to his men, he could promise no quarterto th

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