Others fell into complete disorder as, weak and discouraged, they retired to Lake Champlain.

Many soldiers perished of disease.

"I did not look into a hut or a tent," says an observer, "in which I did not find a dead or dying man." Those who had huts were fortunate.

The fate of some was to die without medical care and without cover.

By the end of June what was left of the force had reached Crown Point on Lake Champlain.
Benedict Arnold, who had been wounded at Quebec, was now at Crown Point.
Competent critics of the war have held that what Arnold now did saved the Revolution.