After a hasty consultation with the other leaders, it was agreed that as the victory had been complete so far, two out of the three barracks carried and burnt, 1500 Russians killed, and a battery of artillery taken, it would be a pity to risk a final repulse by an attack upon a building which, now that the garrison were prepared for resistance, could only be carried with a great loss of life.
The horns were accordingly sounded, and the assailants drawn off, and the column marched through the town, now illuminated by the flames of the two burning barracks.

It was but half an hour since the attack had begun, but the appearance of the town had changed as if by magic.
Every house was lit up, every window open, crowds of people thronged the streets, while the windows were filled with women and children.
All were delirious with delight, and cheered, shouted, and waved their handkerchiefs as the patriot band marched along.

Not a few of the younger men, bidding a hasty adieu to their friends, joined the ranks of their countrymen, and, seizing one of the captured muskets, prepared to take a part in the strife which had been so well begun.
Upon gaining the forest a halt was ordered.

Great fires were lit, and the companies mustered, when it was found that some eighty of those present had received wounds, and that forty had fallen.

All the wounded unable to walk had been carried off, as to leave them where they fell would be to expose them to certain death when found by the Russians.