The combined forces went into camp at Captain Samuel Stalnaker's old place on the Middle Fork of Holston.

Because of his deliberately dilatory policy, Byrd was superseded in the command by Colonel Adam Stephen.

Marching their forces to the Long Island of Holston, Stephen and Waddell erected there Fort Robinson, in compliance with the instructions of Governor Fauquier, of Virginia.

The Cherokees, heartily tired of the war, now sued for peace, which was concluded, independent of the treaty at Charleston, on November 19, 1761.
The successful termination of this campaign had an effect of signal importance in the development of the expansionist spirit.
The rich and beautiful lands which fell under the eye of the North Carolina and Virginia pioneers under Waddell, Byrd, and Stephen, lured them irresistibly on to wider casts for fortune and bolder explorations into the unknown, beckoning West..