Hist._ for 1880,--"The Affair at King's Mountain,"-- gives the extreme tory view.

He puts the number of the Americans at from thirteen hundred to nineteen hundred.

His account, however, is only based on Shelby's later narratives, told thirty years after the event, and these are all that need be considered.

When Shelby grew old, he greatly exaggerated the numbers on both sides in all the fights in which he had taken part.

In his account of King's Mountain, he speaks of Williams and the four hundred Flint Hill men joining the attacking body _after_, not _before_, the nine hundred and ten picked men started.