SHELBY’S FORT REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Year Dedicated: 1927
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: STANLEY AND TERRIE HOWARD
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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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