In a message dated 8/10/99 8:13:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << I have just begun to read about the Battle of King's Mountain......and this is a great story. I never heard of it until I got into searching for my family. This was a great battle - and it begins to look to me it had an effect on why Cornwallis surrendered - plus a little thing like being surrounded from the land by Washington and from the sea by the French fleet, and his own fleet taking off. .... Okay, there were several factors, but it sure seems King's Mountain has to be considered. >> King's Mountain is a pretty place, and I don't remember learning about it in history class either. In fact, there is also a place not too far from there in South Carolina called Cowpen's. Both of these places I learned about through travel. They are both right off I-85.