Almost four hundred of them were killed, wounded, or captured.

Their conduct reflected the half-hearted attitude of their commanding general and some of his subordinates.

The badly mauled brigades hastily took to the boats and ran the rapids, stopping at the first harbor below.

There Wilkinson received tidings from Wade Hampton's army which caused him to abandon the voyage down the St.Lawrence, and it is fair to conjecture that he shed no tears of disappointment.
In September Hampton had led his forces, recruited to four thousand infantry and a few dragoons, from Lake Champlain to the Canadian border in faithful compliance with his instructions to join the movement against Montreal.

His line of march was westward to the Chateauguay River where he took a position which menaced both Montreal and that vital artery, the St.Lawrence.Building roads and bringing up supplies, he waited there for Wilkinson to set his own undertaking in motion.