Then five hundred men, some of them the cheerful takers of the oath of allegiance, slipped round to his rear and in the morning he was attacked from front and rear.
A hot fight followed which resulted in the complete defeat of the British.

Baum was mortally wounded.

Some of his men escaped into the woods; the rest were killed or captured.

Nor was this all.

Burgoyne, scenting danger, had ordered five hundred more Germans to reinforce Baum.