While the mountain flamed like a volcano and resounded with the thunder of the guns, a steady stricture was in progress.

The lines were drawn tighter and tighter around the trapped and frantically struggling army; and at last the fall of their commander, riddled with bullets, proved the tragic futility of further resistance.

The game was caught and bagged to a man.

When Winston, with his fox-hunters of Surry, dashed recklessly through the woods, says a chronicler of the battle, and the last to come into position, Flow'd in, and settling, circled all the lists, then From all the circle of the hills death sleeted in upon the doomed.
The battle was decisive in its effect--shattering the plans of Cornwallis, which till then appeared certain of success.

The victory put a full stop to the invasion of North Carolina, which was then well under way.