Two hundred Frenchmen and six hundred Indians achieved this signal victory.

The only thing that could be called fighting on the English side was done by the Virginians, "the raw American militia," who, spread out as skirmishers, met their foes on their own ground, and were cut off after a desperate resistance almost to a man.
Washington at the outset flung himself headlong into the fight.

He rode up and down the field, carrying orders and striving to rally "the dastards," as he afterwards called the regular troops.

He endeavored to bring up the artillery, but the men would not serve the guns, although to set an example he aimed and discharged one himself.

All through that dreadful carnage he rode fiercely about, raging with the excitement of battle, and utterly exposed from beginning to end.