Bold cavalry raid at Waxhaws and King's Mountain
Major Davie and Captain Bowen lead Whig cavalry to surprise Tory forces at the Waxhaws ford. Bowen defeats Captain Hardy and recovers arms while Reuben Ferris flees after a duel. Davie secures supplies, contemplates an early dawn march to King’s Mountain, then visits Ellen Campbell at the mansion before departing in the morning.
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Crowder’s Creek
Catawba
Bowen
Darby
Hotspur
Davie
Catawba Ford
Waxhaw
Buzzas
Triump
Major Davie
Cornwallis
Waxhaws
Rawdon
Camden
Sevier
Hardy
Lord Cornwallis
Ellick Bowen
Ferris
Bessie
King’s Mountain
Mansion House
Ferguson
Toll
Gates
Sumter
Marion
Virginia Campbell
Shelby
Cleveland
McDowell
Williams
Congress
Mr. Willoughby
Carolina
Ellen
Prince Hubert
Hubert
Jerry
Miss Ellen
The Year Without a Summer Frosts the Nation in 1816
A historic account recalls the 1816 climate anomaly labeled the year without a summer. January and February were mild, but March to June brought persistent frost, snow and ice. Ice formed in May, crops failed, corn was nearly destroyed, and marginal warmth returned only briefly in September. Farmers stored seed from 1815 for 1817 planting as fears of a cooling sun grew.
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Boston
Vermont
Maine
New York
Massachusetts
New England
Tewksbury
New Orleans
Europe
Barnet
London
Middle States
Eastern
Tillman Responds in Letter on Dispensary Debates
The open letter from Sen ator Tillman published in daily papers defends his misquotation of Pope and argues the dispensary law, not prohibition, better serves morals and health. He cites South Carolina decisions, Supreme Court rulings, and Vance vs Vandercook to contest Cromer’s criticisms and defends his stance amid campaign tensions.
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Tillman
Geo. B. Cromer
Anderson
Pope
Supreme Court
State
Aiken
S. C
County Board of Control
McGowan
Town Cowncil
Gary
Supreme Court of the United States
Vance
W. A. Vandercook Co
Court of Last Resort
Charleston
Columbia
Charlotte Observer
South Carolina
Y. J. Pope
Ben Tillman
Justice McGowan
E. B. Gary
Mcliver
North Carolina
McIver
B. R. Tran
Trenton
8. C
Expensive whim and fortunes from unlikely events
An old record recounts costly, curious fortunes from bizarre causes. A sultan opens a bridge costing over 500000 to please a royal heir, Massachusetts fights gypsy moths after a window draft, slave traders’ actions crash the Nile and a Boston silk grower’s moths. Senator Turner profits from mining shares in Le Roi and a Como lake yields a remarkable placer gold discovery near a Colorado mining town.
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Engineer Inc
Constantinople
London
Penakantt
Beda
Mabagtcheh
Massachusetts
Boston
France
Lower
Egypt
John Bull
Khartum
Nile
United States
George L. Turner
Washington
Turner
British America
Victoria
le Roi
Como
Colorado
Jane
George
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Campbell King's Mountain
Kespeare
Massa
Captain Hardy
Paasas
Zoe
Continental Congress
Senator
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