They, too, were attacked and overwhelmed.

In all Burgoyne lost some eight hundred men and four guns.

The American loss was seventy.
It shows the spirit of the time that, for the sport of the soldiers, British prisoners were tied together in pairs and driven by negroes at the tail of horses.

An American soldier described long after, with regret for his own cruelty, how he had taken a British prisoner who had had his left eye shot out and mounted him on a horse also without the left eye, in derision at the captive's misfortune.

The British complained that quarter was refused in the fight.