Colonel de Salaberry was a trained soldier, and he now displayed brilliant courage and resourcefulness.

Two American divisions attacking him were unable to carry his breastworks and were driven along the river bank and routed.

Hampton's troops abandoned much of their equipment, and returned to camp with a loss of about fifty men.
There was great rejoicing in Canada and rightly so, for a victory had been handsomely won without the aid of British regulars; and Colonel de Salaberry's handful of French Canadians received the credit for thwarting the American plans against Montreal.

But, without belittling the signal valor of the achievement, the documentary evidence goes to prove that Hampton's failure was largely due to the neglect of his Government.

His state of mind at this time was such that he wrote: "Events have no tendency to change my opinion of the destiny intended for me, nor my determination to retire from a service where I can feel neither security nor expect honor." With this tame conclusion the armies of Wilkinson and Hampton tucked themselves into log huts for the winter.