The result
The backwoodsmen kept to the trees and their rifles seldom missed their aim. The British retreated to the top of the mountain. Colonel Ferguson was killed and his entire army was killed or captured. This victory caused great rejoicing among the Americans and prepared the way for the work of Greene and Morgan.
A deadly blow
Sevier and Campbell hastened back over the mountains, for the Indians were scalping and burning again. With seven hundred riflemen, they marched against the Indian towns and burned a thousand cabins and fifty thousand bushels of corn. This was a hard blow, but the Indians kept fighting several years longer.
Sevier, in all, fought thirty-five battles. He was the most famous Indian fighter of his time.
THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN
Where 900 frontiersmen attacked and totally destroyed 1,000 British soldiers entrenched and better armed
