Their line was broken, and the two regiments separated from each other.

Colonel Mawhood, who commanded that in front, and was, consequently, nearest the rear division of the army, under Lord Cornwallis, retired to the main road, and continued his march to Maidenhead.

The fifty-fifth regiment, which was on the left, being hard pressed, fled in confusion across the fields into a back road, leading between Hillsborough and Kingston towards Brunswick.

The vicinity of the British forces at Maidenhead secured Colonel Mawhood, and General Washington pressed forward to Princeton.
The regiment remaining in that place took post in the college, and made a show of resistance; but some pieces of artillery being brought up to play upon that building, it was abandoned, and the greater part of them became prisoners.

A few saved themselves by a precipitate flight to Brunswick.
In this engagement, rather more than one hundred British were killed in the field, and near three hundred were taken prisoners.