Almost the entire British and tory force was killed or captured; the only men who escaped were the few who got through the American lines by adopting the whig badges. About three hundred of the loyalists were killed or disabled; the slightly wounded do not seem to have been counted. [Footnote: For the loyalist losses, see _ante_, note discussing their numbers. The "South Carolina Loyalist" says they lost about a third of their number. It is worthy of note that the actual fighting at King's Mountain bore much resemblance to that at Majuba Hill a century later; a backwoods levy was much like a Boer commando.] The colonel-commandant was among the slain; of the four militia colonels present, two were killed, one wounded, [Footnote: In some accounts this officer is represented as a major, in some as a colonel; at any rate he was in command of a small regiment, or fragment of a regiment.] and the other captured--a sufficient proof of the obstinacy of the resistance. The American loss in killed and wounded amounted to less than half, perhaps only a third, that of their foes. [Footnote: The official report as published gave the American loss as twenty-eight killed and sixty wounded. The original document (in the Gates MSS., N. Y. Hist. Soc.) gives the loss in tabulated form in an appendix, which has not heretofore been published. It is as follows: RETURN OF KILLED AND WOUNDED. KILLED | WOUNDED | Col. | Col. | | Major. | | Major. | | | Capt. | | | Capt. | | | | Lieut. | | | | Lieut. | | | | | Ensign. | | | | | Ensign. | | | | | | Sergt. | | | | | | Sergt. | | | | | | | Private. | | | | | | Private. REGIMENTS. | | | | | | | Total.| | | | | | | Total. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Grand | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total. Campbell's.. 1 2 4 5 12 | 1 3 17 21 33 McDowell's.. 4 4 | 4 4 8 Thomas'..... | 8 8 8 Cleavland's. 8 8 | 1 2 10 13 21 Shelby's.... | Sevier's.... 2 2 | 10 10 12 Hayes'...... 1 1 | 3 3 4 Brannon's... | 3 3 3 Col. Williams'1 1 | 1 ----------------------------------------------------- 1 1 1 2 4 19 28 | 1 3 3 55 62 90