A historic battle described (by one who was there)
I mentioned in an earlier post -- Kings of King Mountain, posted April 9, 2021, -- that pursuing one of Sharon's ancestors had led me to learn about the Battle of King's Mountain, a Revolutionary War battle considered to have been a key victory near the end of the war. Of course, I knew nothing about it. But one of Sharon's forebears had apparently been part of it. Subsequently I found that yet another branch of the family tree had contributed to the battle, the French branch I've talked about in the last two posts. One of Rene Jacques Husson's great grandchildren, Conrad Hussong, was present at the end of battle. By this point in the family history, a "g" had been added to the name owing to the English not hearing the nasal, French pronunciation of the name correctly. Why the family went along with this change is not explained, but my guess would be that it was written down in some official record and going along with the change proved easier than corre...