Over five hundred prisoners were taken, the guns were carried off, and the works destroyed, leaving the British to begin afresh with a good deal of increased caution and respect.

Not long after, Harry Lee stormed Paulus Hook with equal success, and the British were checked and arrested, if they intended any extensive movement.

On the frontier, Sullivan, after some delays, did his work effectively, ravaging the Indian towns and reducing them to quiet, thus taking away another annoyance and danger.
In these various ways Clinton's circle of activity was steadily narrowed, but it may be doubted whether he had any coherent plan.
The principal occupation of the British was to send out marauding expeditions and cut off outlying parties.

Tryon burned and pillaged in Connecticut, Matthews in Virginia, and others on a smaller scale elsewhere in New Jersey and New York.

The blundering stupidity of this system of warfare was only equaled by its utter brutality.