Event · Significance tier 3 · provisional assessment
Patriot militia defeat Ferguson at King's Mountain
Patriot militia surrounded and defeated Patrick Ferguson's largely Loyalist force at King's Mountain, killing Ferguson and capturing the survivors.
- Category
- armed conflict
- Episode relations
- 1
- Selection basis
- film anchored
Episode coverage
Episode 6
substantial · spoken: caption verified
Visual check: not checked
Why this coverage: The episode follows Ferguson's threat, the Overmountain mobilization, encirclement, surrender, and the strategic effect on Cornwallis.
Caption entry: 00:29:29.067 · 00:31:16.241 · 00:32:22.407
Why it matters
The battle disrupted British recruitment and advance into North Carolina while exposing the Revolution's southern civil-war violence.
Why this provisional tier
This tier predates canonical assessment v1. It remains a research hypothesis and must not be used as settled label priority.
King's Mountain helped check British momentum and destroyed a major Loyalist force, but it did not by itself reverse the southern campaign.
The language of Patriot victory should not hide that many of those defeated were American Loyalists and that violence continued after organized resistance collapsed.