Some regiments pursuing with more vivacity than others, they were separated from each other, their weight lessened, and their effect impaired.

The darkness which obstructed the reunion of the broken parts of the American army, also prevented their discerning the real situation of the enemy, so as to improve the first impression; and, in some instances, some corps being in advance of others, produced uncertainty whether the troops, seen indistinctly, were friends or foes.
The attacks on the flanks and rear, which formed a part of the original plan, do not appear ever to have been made.

The Pennsylvania militia came in view of the chasseurs who flanked the left of the British line, but did not engage them closely.

The Maryland and Jersey militia just showed themselves on the right flank, about the time Greene was commencing a retreat.
[Sidenote: The Americans repulsed.] These embarrassments gave the British time to recover from the consternation into which they had been thrown.

General Knyphausen, who commanded their left, detached two brigades to meet the right of Sullivan which had penetrated far into the village, before his left, which had been detained at Chew's house, could rejoin him; and the action became warm in this quarter.