On Friday, September 29, 1780, a large part of the American Army passed this spot under the command of Colonels William Campbell, Isaac Shelby, and John Sevier on their march to the Battle of King's Mountain. There, on October 7, 1780, British and Tory forces numbering 1187 atop the mountain under Colonel Patrick Ferguson were killed or captured, and Ferguson was slain, after American volunteer patriots under Colonel William Campbell, Benjamin Cleveland, Isaac Shelby, John Sevier, Joseph McDowell, Edward Lacey, James Williams, Samuel Hammond, Joseph Winston, Frederick Hambright, and other leaders surrounded them and went up the mountain. With the defeat at King's Mountain began the downfall of British rule in America. At that time, the only regiment intact in the Carolinas east of King's Mountain was the Marion Brigade, famous in song and story and commanded by General Francis Marion. In the war with the Cherokee Indians in 1761, 30 men under Marion were sent to dislodge the Indians in Etchoe Pass so the main army could go through, and 21 of Marion's men were killed by the first fire of the Indians while Marion was unhurt. The highway leading to Marion is named in his honor Etchoe Pass. It was the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee troops, the 30th Division, in the World War that broke the Hindenburg Line.