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King's Mountain.
About the time when James Robertson went from Watauga to fling out the frontier line three hundred miles farther westward, the British took Savannah.

In 1780 they took Charleston and Augusta, and overran Georgia.
Augusta was the point where the old trading path forked north and west, and it was the key to the Back Country and the overhill domain.

In Georgia and the Back Country of South Carolina there were many Tories ready to rally to the King's standard whenever a King's officer should carry it through their midst.

A large number of these Tories were Scotch, chiefly from the Highlands.