Unwilling to share the misfortune of their friends, they manifested a determination not to await the arrival of Arnold.

The efforts of St.Leger to detain them being ineffectual, many of them decamped immediately, and the rest threatened to follow.
[Sidenote: St.Leger abandons the siege of Fort Schuyler, and retreats to Ticonderoga.] The time for deliberation was past.

The camp was broken up with indications of excessive alarm.

The tents were left standing; and the artillery, with great part of the baggage, ammunition, and provisions, fell into the hands of the Americans.

The retreating army was pursued by a detachment from the garrison; and it was stated by deserters, that the Indians plundered the remaining baggage of the officers, and massacred such soldiers as could not keep up with the line of march.
St.Leger returned to Montreal, whence he proceeded to Ticonderoga, with the intention of joining General Burgoyne by that route.
The decisive victory at Bennington, and the retreat of St.Leger from fort Schuyler, however important in themselves, were still more so in their consequences.