Hurt suggests especially physical injury, often bodily injury attended with pain: a bad hurt from a fall. A wound is usually a physical hurt caused by cutting, shooting, etc., or an emotional hurt: a serious wound in the shoulder; to inflict a wound by betraying someone's trust. 1. benefit.
The American Revolutionary War (1775â1783), also referred to as the American War of Independence and as the Revolutionary War in the United States, was an armed conflict between Great Britain and those thirteen of its North American colonies which after the onset of the war declared independence as the United States of America.
The American victory in this battle is often called the turning point of the Revolutionary War in the South. Battle of Kings Mountain. The American patriot forces defeated a substantial force of Loyalists (Americans who remained loyal to the British king) at Kings Mountain in North Carolina.