He kept up a warm engagement for about two hours, during which the vessels that were most ahead escaped to Ticonderoga.

Two gallies and five gondolas, which remained, made a desperate resistance.

At length one of them struck; after which Arnold ran the remaining vessels on shore, and blew them up; having first saved his men, though great efforts were made to take them.
On the approach of the British army, a small detachment, which had occupied Crown Point as an out-post, evacuated the place, and retired to Ticonderoga, which Schuyler determined to defend to the last extremity.
[Sidenote: Takes possession of Crown Point.] [Sidenote: Retires into winter quarters.] General Carleton took possession of Crown Point, and advanced a part of his fleet into Lake George, within view of Ticonderoga.

His army also approached that place, as if designing to invest it; but, after reconnoitring the works, and observing the steady countenance of the garrison, he thought it too late to lay siege to the fortress.
Re-embarking his army, he returned to Canada, where he placed it in winter quarters; making the Isle Aux Noix his most advanced post..