King's Mountain was the prelude to Cornwallis's defeat.

It heartened the Southern Patriots, until then cast down by Gates's disaster.

To the British the death of Ferguson was an irreparable loss because of its depressing effect on the Back Country Tories.

Ding's Mountain, indeed, broke the Tory spirit.

Seven days after the battle General Nathanael Greene succeeded to the command of the Southern Patriot army which Gates had led to defeat.