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that moment, Reidesel appeared, with the ad- 

 vanced party of his cohimn. It consisted of the 

 chassieur company, and eighty grenadiers and 

 light infantry, who were immediately led into 

 action. The fortune of the day was soon 

 decided ; the Americans fled in every direc- 

 tion ; but Warner, preserving his intrepidity 

 and resolution, kept up the spirits of his men, 

 collected most of them together, and conducted 

 them safe to the American army at fort Edward. 

 General St. Clair was about six miles distant, 

 when the firing began, but no assistance was 

 sent on to Warner. The loss in this action was 

 very considerable on the American side. Hale, 

 who attempted to escape by flight, fell in with 

 an inconsiderable party of British, and surren- 

 dered himself and a number of his men, prison- 

 ers of war. In killed, wounded, and prisoners, 

 the Americans lost in this action, three hundred 

 and twenty four ; and the royal troops, inclu- 

 ding British and Germans, had not less than one 

 hundred and eighty three, killed and wounded.* 

 Confiding in Frazier, to conduct the pur- 

 suit of the Americans by land, general Bur- 

 goyne undertook himself to direct the chase by 

 water. The boom and other obstructions to 

 navigation not being compleated, were soon cut 

 through ; and so engaged were the British in 

 this business, that by nine o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, the gun boats, tl*e Royal George, and Inflexible 

 frigates had passed the works. Several regiments 

 embarked aboard the vessels, and the pursuit 

 was pushed with such vigor, that by three in 

 the afternoon, the foremost brigade of gun boats 



* Gordon. Vol. II, p. 308. 



