The general was brought off in a small tumbril by Colonel Washington, Captain Stewart of the guards, and his servant.

The defeated detachment retreated with the utmost precipitation to the rear division of the army; soon after which, Braddock expired.

In the first moments of alarm, all the stores were destroyed, except those necessary for immediate use; and not long afterwards, Colonel Dunbar marched the remaining European troops to Philadelphia, in order to place them in, what he termed, winter quarters.
Colonel Washington was greatly disappointed and disgusted by the conduct of the regular troops in this action.

In his letter to Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie, giving an account of it, he said, "They were struck with such an inconceivable panic, that nothing but confusion and disobedience of orders prevailed among them.

The officers in general behaved with incomparable bravery, for which they greatly suffered; there being upwards of sixty killed and wounded--a large proportion out of what we had.
"The Virginia companies behaved like men, and died like soldiers; for, I believe, out of three companies on the ground that day, scarce thirty men were left alive.