Thousand miles away from the North, a group of Mountain men formed a militia of there own and joined forces with the Patriot militiamen. During two weeks in the fall the militiamen crossed the Appalachian Mountains and tracked down the British Army. After only an hour of battling on atop a small rise near the North Carolina-South Carolina line, the Patriots had already taken out most of the Loyalists. This battle became known as the Battle of Kings Mountain, and is credited for changing the course of the American Revolution.