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ID: 1102023
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1102023
Record Type:
administrative
Moores Creek National Battlefield (historic site)
Note:
Site of battle in American Revolutionary War, in which defeat of loyalists by patriots on 27 February 1776 prevented the planned British invasion of North Carolina, which was the 1st colony to vote for independence.
Names:
Moores Creek National Battlefield
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Moores Creek Bridge
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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North Carolina
(state) (
P
)
................
Pender
(county) (
P
)
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Moores Creek National Battlefield
(historic site) (
P
)
Place Types:
historic site (
preferred
,
C
)
............
national military park established in 1926
battlefield (
H
)
............
in 1776
Sources and Contributors:
Moores Creek Bridge..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 620
Moores Creek National Battlefield..........
[
VP Preferred
]
........................................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 620
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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