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King's Mountain.
With the utmost satisfaction I can acquaint you with the sudden and favorable turn of our public affairs.

A few days ago destruction hung over our heads.

Cornwallis with at least 1500 British and Tories waited at Charlotte for the reinforcement of 1000 from Broad River, which reinforcement has been entirely cut off, 130 killed and the remainder captured.

Cornwallis immediately retreated, and is now on his way toward Charleston, with part of our army in his rear... .-- Elizabeth Maxwell Steel: Salisbury, October 25, 1780.
So thoroughly had the Cherokees been subdued by the devastations of the campaign of 1776 that for several years thereafter they were unable to organize for a new campaign against the backwoodsmen along the frontiers of North Carolina and Tennessee.
During these years the Holston settlers principally busied themselves in making their position secure, as well as in setting their house in order by severely punishing the lawless Tory element among them.