Please help support us and check out all my novels at www.lupolit.com Did you know the original Declaration of Independence was signed four years before the one that is celebrated on July 4th. A group of Appalachia Hill folk declared themselves independent from the British years before the rest of the nation. We explore the history of the Watauga association and the battle of Kings mountain. See how a loose band of hillbillies were really the first free settlement in the colonies.
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isabelvalent
November 26, 2012 at 4:26 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
oh ur so smart
James Magrowe
November 26, 2012 at 4:40 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
there is only one and i saw the original one in dc! true that now! james
autistipton
November 26, 2012 at 4:43 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
My Grand Father is Colonel John Tipton his son’s and brothers where over the mountian men. There sons did it agin in 1812. They dont like us.
bubbybaker
November 26, 2012 at 5:17 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Good report! I’m directly descended from Michael Hyder who was part of the Watauga settlement. He was advanced in years by the time of King’s Mountain so he stayed at Watauga to ward off any attacks from the Cherokee.
nicademus1974
November 26, 2012 at 6:10 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Ty very much, did not know that.
CurtHowland
November 26, 2012 at 6:39 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I give Washington full credit for both Trenton and for walking away from power. Not much more, but that’s enough for one lifetime.
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Would that he had given Hamilton the boot, the world would be a better place.
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“We don’t belong there and should go home.”
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Not “we”, They. True, they should not be, and I’m sickened that my tax money pays for it.
ericstrattendgtmy
November 26, 2012 at 7:19 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I don’t believe Washington was an “idiot” considering Trenton and he did not take adavantage of his situation and take a title of King. Never the less Nathaniel Green and the rest realized that winning battles on your own turf wasn’t nessessary, just ware down the will of Briton. Same as Charlie in Viet-nam or what we will get in Afganastan. We don’t belong there and should go home.
oyate1960
November 26, 2012 at 7:58 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Fascinating.
TABOOVSKNOWLEDGE
November 26, 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I knew that!
bluestreak2653
November 26, 2012 at 8:59 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Great reporting, As usual good factual information. Keep up the good fight and thank you.
swordsman1600
November 26, 2012 at 9:15 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Nice, yet another piece of history I never knew.
CurtHowland
November 26, 2012 at 9:18 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Spanked, because Washington was an idiot who, like Green, kept trying to fight the Brits using the same tactics the Brits used.
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It was the militia hit-and-run tactics that beat the Brits, not the Colonial regulars.
CurtHowland
November 26, 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
“Did the Scott/Irish join up for further battles with the Revolutionary Army?”
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In droves, enthusiastically.
fatbob1950
November 26, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Interesting. Did the Scott/Irish join up for further battles with the Revolutionary Army? I assume so and of course where not discriminated against correct?
ljsmithwv
November 26, 2012 at 10:16 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Needless to say, that was not tought in any of my history classes here in West Virginia, the heart of Appalachia.
truthineducation
November 26, 2012 at 11:00 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Nice job Tarrin.
drumr828
November 26, 2012 at 11:29 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hey fantastic video man!
Barbara DeZan
November 26, 2012 at 12:09 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
The U.S, Constitution is very similar to the Iroquoise Confederation “Great Law of Peace”. Side by side comparison is striking. This Iroquoise plan dates to 1525….and was the first representative democratic document. Good info on the internet on this.
EdgeMugga
November 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This was very well done, and extremely informative. I encourage you to do more of the same, as often as possible.
RESET1776
November 26, 2012 at 1:03 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Great story!
praeeo
November 26, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Thanks for sharing this story. Haven’t heard of it (you’re right)
Take care!