Battle of Charlotte Marker, Charlotte

Inscription: "DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CHARLOTTE WAS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE AS IT LAY DIRECTLY ON THE INVASION ROUTE / (TRYON STREET) FROM THE SOUTHERN COLONIES INTO NORTH CAROLINA. A NUMBER OF MAJOR ENGAGEMENTS WERE / FOUGHT WITHIN 90 MILES OF CHARLOTTE, INCLUDING CAMDEN, KINGS MOUNTAIN, COWPENS AND GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. MANY MECKLENBURG CITIZENS FOUGHT IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND THE SENTIMENT IN MECKLENBURG WAS FIERCELY / REBELLIOUS. IN HIS MEMOIRS, TARLETON WROTE, “IT WAS EVIDENT, AND HAD BEEN FREQUENTLY MENTIONED TO THE / KING’S OFFICERS, THAT THE COUNTIES OF MECKLENBURG AND ROHAN WERE MORE HOSTILE TO ENGLAND THAN ANY OTHER / IN AMERICA.”