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North Carolina
North Carolina's backcountry became the decisive theater of the Southern campaign. The overmountain men at Kings Mountain and Nathanael Greene's grinding campaign through the Carolinas broke British control of the South.
Kings Mountain is often overlooked in standard curricula, but it was one of the war's genuinely decisive battles — a Patriot militia victory that destroyed an entire Loyalist force and shattered Cornwallis's plan for subduing the South. Guilford Courthouse, fought six months later, was a Pyrrhic British victory that left Cornwallis's army too weakened to hold the Carolinas. Teaching North Carolina means teaching students how irregular warfare, local knowledge, and the willingness to absorb losses can defeat a superior conventional force.
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4 of 4 North Carolina towns have curated teacher resources.
- Guilford CourthouseCurated
- Kings MountainCurated
- WilmingtonCurated
- New BernCurated