He must go back and meet both frontal and flank attacks, or go forward, or surrender.

To go forward now had most promise, for at last Howe had instructed Clinton, left in command at New York, to move, and Clinton was making rapid progress up the Hudson.

On the 7th of October Burgoyne attacked again at Stillwater.

This time he was decisively defeated, a result due to the amazing energy in attack of Benedict Arnold, who had been stripped of his command by an intrigue.
Gates would not even speak to him and his lingering in the American camp was unwelcome.

Yet as a volunteer Arnold charged the British line madly and broke it.