<<The question is, did the Watauga Settlements really have maple syrup to mix with their corn? I'm sure there are maple trees in TN, but I've never heard of the syrup being used by the pioneers.>> I learned this a few months ago. Cane did not come to SW VA until about the War to Enslave the Southern Citizentry. Before that it was sugar maple. Note the place names with sugar in it. Sugar Hollow, Sugar Grove, etc. <The comments are, most stories about this battle call the losers "British," although, as this history points out, most of them were also Carolinians, but Loyalists -- the first civil war?>> This is a perfect example of the victor writing the history. The bad British sounds better than bad cousin or bad neighbor. Makes one suspicious of the other Civil War history. <The British had to stop and remove their bayonets before they could reload, and by then, many were dead.>> With their breech loaders while did they resort to the bayonet?? Which side had the advantage of longer range? <To a Civil War buff, the casualties seem very light for such a close encounter, but compared to, say, Gettysburg, so does Normandy.>> That is the difference in accuracy of the current rifle. -eddie . . . get a life. Eternal Life!