At the Battle of Kings Mountain, the tide of battle turned in favor of the American Colonies when, on October 7, A.D. 1780, British forces commanded by Patrick Ferguson were met and totally defeated by Campbell, Shelby, Williams, Cleveland, Sevier, and their followers from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. Those who fell on this battleground in defense of civil liberty were Col James Williams, Maj William Chronicle, Captains John Mattocks, David Beatie, and William Edmonson, First Lieutenants Reece Bowen, Thomas McCullough, William Blackburn, and Robert Edmonson, Second Lieutenants John Beatie, Andrew Edmonson, Humberson Lyon, James Corry, James Laird, Nathaniel Guist, Nathaniel Dryden, and James Phillips, and Privates William Rabb, John Boyd, David Duff, Henry Henigar, William Watson, Arthur Patterson, and Preston Goford.