1. The End of the American Revolution
May 2013

2. The Battle of Kings Mountain
British Major Ferguson threatened to burn farms of “Overmountain” Men if they did not sign an oath of loyalty to British
The Scots-Irish Patriots met British Loyalist at Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780
The Patriots won a decisive victory and kept the British from invading North Carolina in 1780

3. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Took place in modern-day Greensboro, NC
on March 15, 1781
Patriots under the leadership of Continental Army General Nathanael Greene
British under the command of General Lord Charles Cornwallis
Although the British won, they lost many soldiers and were severely weakened

4. “Another such victory would be the ruin of the British Army.”
British Statesman Charles Fox
Reacting to the British “victory” at Guilford Courthouse

5. The Battle of Yorktown (Va)
The last major battle of the American Revolution
October 1781
Cornwallis trapped by the French Navy on one side and Washington’s army on the other

9. The Battle of Yorktown (Va)
The British surrender to General George Washington on October 17, 1781—End of Revolutionary War
The British band supposedly played “The World Turned Upside Down”

10. The World Turned Upside Down
If buttercups buzzed after the bee, If boats were on land, Churches on sea, If ponies rode men, And if grass ate the cows, And if cats should be chased Into holes by the mouse, If the mammas sold their babies To the Gypsies for half a crown, If summer were spring, And the other way 'round, Then all the world would be upside down.