Cumberland Gap

noun

a pass in the Cumberland Mountains at the junction of the Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee boundaries. 1,315 feet (401 meters) high.

Cumberland Gap

Pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that was used by early settlers to move west.

Eastern companies were taking up principalities, and at Cumberland Gap, those helmeted Englishmen had acquired a kingdom.

We went on through Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, where we had a snowstorm.

Soon they came to Cumberland Gap, a narrow mountain valley which led into Kentucky.

Was the loss of Cumberland Gap a trivial matter, and did it in fact not cut in two our great strategic front?

The story of their expedition through Cumberland Gap, and their long hunt, is now familiar to readers of Western history.

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