On this day in North Carolina history, October 7, 1780, Kings Mountain, NC. Redcoat Patrick Ferguson told the mountain men of NC he’d march over the ridges, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword. Bad idea. North Carolina doesn’t take a threat like that and not hand out repercussions. Joseph Winston out of Surry. Benjamin Cleveland out of Wilkes. Joseph McDowell and the Burke County boys. Lincoln County men under Chronicle and Dickson. They linked up with the Overmountain men who’d come through the gaps and pointed the whole crowd at Ferguson’s Loyalists camped on Kings Mountain. About an hour. Patriots were up the slope. Ferguson dead. Loyalist line broken. Roughly 28 of ours killed, 60 some were wounded. More than between 150 to 260 of theirs dead and hundreds marched off as prisoners. Cornwallis felt that ass kicking all the way to Yorktown. We fought along with our neighbors south and sparked the turning point in the Revolution. They can put the monument on the other side of the state line. Doesn’t change who climbed that hill. Surry. Wilkes. Burke. Lincoln. Mountain men who heard “fire and sword” as a threat and loaded up. They didn’t wait to be ask to fight. Freedom didn’t get handed to North Carolina. We gathered a militia, climbed a hill with passion in our hearts, with fire in our eyes and TOOK IT from those who planned to take it !! Thats North Carolina!! Thats the spirit of the OLD NORTH STATE!! If you can trace your family roots back to the Revolution in NC, EAST or WEST, then that spirit and blood still lies within YOU!! 🇺🇸 YOU DON'T NEED A POLITICIAN AT THE STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL TELLING YOU LIES ABOUT HOW GOOD THINGS ARE... WHEN THEY ARE NOT AND THAT YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!! YOU DON'T NEED BIG GOVERNMENT ON YOUR BACK TELLING YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP MORE OF YOUR FREEDOM, YOUR SOVEREIGNTY, YOUR MONEY, WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY STRETCHED THIN MAKING ENDS MEET!! YOU DON'T NEED TO SEND YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO GO FIGHT SOME FOREIGN LANDS WAR WHEN WE HAVE WAR DAILY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREETS!! YOU KNOW ALL THESE THINGS BECAUSE THAT REVOLUTIONARY BLOOD RUNS THROUGH YOUR VIENS!! YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO FIGHT!! THE ONLY QUESTION YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF IS... HOW LONG DO YOU PLAN TO KEEP PUTTING UP WITH TYRANNY? YOUR REVOLUTIONARY FOREFATHERS ANSWERED WITH A RESOUNDING... NEVER AGAIN!! 🇺🇸💪