Only the regulars from Maryland and Delaware were left.

They fought on like heroes until their leader, General John De Kalb, fell with seventeen wounds.

Then the survivors surrendered.
Gates himself had been carried far to the rear by the rush of the fleeing militia.
[Battle of King's Mountain, 1780.

_Hero Tales_, 71-78.] 159.

King's Mountain, October, 1780 .-- Cornwallis now thought that resistance surely was at an end.