On October 7, 1780, Patriot militia surprised and surrounded Ferguson's Loyalists on Kings Mountain, inflicting severe casualties and winning decisively.

The Patriots caught the Loyalists at Kings Mountain near the South Carolina border and, achieving complete surprise, attacked and surrounded them, inflicting severe casualties. Sevier's and Campbell's parties assaulted the mountain's heel, its highest point, as de Peyster remarked on the screaming attackers. Ferguson's Loyalist militia, commanded by the British major of the 71st Regiment of Foot, was defeated in what is now rural Cherokee County, South Carolina, nine miles south of present-day Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

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