page_title: John Crockett (frontiersman)
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: John Crockett (frontiersman) / Military career
caption_attribution_description: English: Black and white reproduction of artist Lloyd Branson's Gathering of Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, which depicts the gathering of the Overmountain Men en route to their victory over British loyalist forces at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
context_page_description: John Crockett was an American frontiersman and soldier, and the father of David "Davy" Crockett.
context_section_description: During the American War for Independence, Crockett fought along with the Overmountain Men from west of the Appalachians. The Overmountain Men often crossed the mountains to face the British in the war's southern campaign. Crockett fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, a major victory for the colonists.
caption: Gathering of Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, a black and white reproduction of Lloyd Branson's 1915 depiction of the Patriot militias joining up.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon PowerShot SX20 IS", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image DateTime": "2010:07:25 16:31:22", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Tag 0x1001": "3840", "Image Tag 0x1002": "2160", "Image ExifOffset": "2288", "Image Padding": "[]", "Image OffsetSchema": "4168", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/60", "EXIF FNumber": "16/5", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "80", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2010:07:25 16:31:22", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2010:07:25 16:31:22", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "3", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "189/32", "EXIF ApertureValue": "107/32", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "107/32", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "7279/1000", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3840", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2160", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "960000/61", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "720000/61", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "2096"}