The few provisions saved would not last the remnant of Wilkins's own soldiers for a month, and the ammunition was almost entirely lost.

Even if they succeeded in arriving safely at Detroit, they would only be an added burden to Gladwyn; and so, sick at heart from failure and the loss of comrades, the survivors beat their way back to the Niagara.
A week or two later a messenger arrived at Fort Detroit bearing news of the disaster.

The scarcity of provisions at Detroit was such that Gladwyn decided to reduce his garrison.

Keeping about two hundred men in the fort, he sent the rest to Niagara.

Then the force remaining at Detroit braced themselves to endure a hard, lonely winter.
Theirs was not a pleasant lot.