This manoeuvre being discovered, the works and batteaux were set on fire, and the troops retired to fort Anne.

On this occasion, the baggage of the army, and a great quantity of military stores, were either destroyed by the Americans, or taken by the British.
Knowing that he could save his army only by the rapidity of his march, General St.Clair reached Castletown, thirty miles from Ticonderoga, on the night succeeding the evacuation of the fort.

The rear guard under Colonel Warner halted six miles short of that place.

Having been augmented by those who from excessive fatigue had fallen out of the line of march, it amounted to rather more than one thousand men.
{July 7.} [Sidenote: Colonel Warner attacked by General Frazer and obliged to retreat.] The next morning at five, they were overtaken and attacked by General Frazer with eight hundred and fifty men.

The action was warm and well contested.