The victory was with the Carolinians, yet the affair was very far from decisive in its consequences.

The enemy had only retired from one advantageous position to another.

They waited his approach only to renew a conflict in which even victory might be without its fruits.

To gain a battle, unless a final one, was, with a force so small as his, a matter of very doubtful advantage.

He was already encumbered with his wounded, to furnish horses for whom, he was compelled to discard, and to destroy, a large quantity of the provisions necessary for the army.