Cleveland is a city of almost 50 000 people in south east Tennessee. You would think it was named after Grover Cleveland, former president of the United States. Instead it was named for Benjamin Cleveland (1738 - 1806), best known as a colonel in the Wilkes County Regiment of the North Carolina militia during the American War of Independence. Cleveland was one of the commanders of the Battle of Kings Mountain, which took place on 7 October 1780 between Colonial Patriot militias and Loyalist militias.  The battle has been described as "the war's largest all-American fight." Of the 900 colonial patriots, 28 were killed, and 62 wounded. The Loyalist side had 1105 men: 290 were killed, 163 wounded, and 668 were taken prisoner after Captain Abraham de Peyster surrendered. Major Patrick Ferguson, the commander of the Loyalist forces was killed in action. He was the only regular army officer participating on either side of the battle. Patriot forces desecrated his body in the af...