The bateaux drew up alongside the bridge, and the dead and wounded were taken on board to be carried to the fort.
It was useless to attempt to drive the shifty savages from their lairs, and so the retreat was sounded.

Captain Grant, in charge of the rear company, led his men back across the bridge while Dalyell covered the retreat; and now the fight took on a new aspect.

As the soldiers retreated along the road leading to the fort, a destructive fire poured upon them from houses and barns, from behind fences, and from a newly dug cellar.

With the river on their left, and with the enemy before and behind as well as on their sight, they were in danger of being annihilated.
Grant ordered his men to fix bayonets: a dash was made where the savages were thickest, and they were scattered.
As the fire was renewed panic seized the troops.

But Dalyell came up from the rear, and with shouts and threats and flat of sword restored order.