Night was now falling, and Ney fell back under cover of darkness to his original position in Frasnes; while the British lighted their fires, and bivouacked on the ground they had so bravely held.
As soon as the order came for the troops to bivouac where they were standing, arms were piled and the men set to work.

Parties chopped down hedges and broke up fences, and fires were soon blazing.

Owing to the late hour at which the fight terminated, and the confusion among the baggage wagons that were now beginning to arrive from the rear, no regular distribution of rations could be made.

Most of the men, however, had filled their haversacks before leaving their quarters on the previous evening, and a party sent down the road obtained a sufficient supply of bread for the rest from a commissariat wagon.
While the fires were being lighted the light company were ordered to aid in the work of collecting the wounded.

The other regiments had also sent out parties, and for hours the work went on.