Then the defenders of the battery raised an answering cheer to their friends in the distance, and, exhausted with their exertions, threw themselves on the ground.
Of those working the guns but three had been wounded by rifle bullets which had passed through the embrasures.
Several of the riflemen had fallen shot through the head, as they fired over the top of the battery, while thirty or forty lay killed and wounded behind the abattis.
After a few minutes' rest the party advanced, and soon joined their friends, who saluted them with loud acclamations.

The victory had been a complete one.

The whole of the spare ammunition and stores had fallen into the hands of the victors, upon overpowering the rear-guard, had cut the traces and carried off the horses.

The column had made a sturdy resistance at this point, and although the desperate onslaughts of the scythe-armed Poles had several times broken their ranks and carried slaughter among them, they had yet stood firm, and it was only the crushing of the head of the column, and its subsequent retreat, which had at last decided the day.
For some hundred yards in front of the guns the ground was covered with Russian dead.

Most of the artillery horses had fallen, and but two of the guns had been carried off the field.