They were pushed back by weight of opposing numbers.

Still they died in their tracks, until the survivors were actually pushed over a cliff and down to the bank of the river.
There they surrendered, for there were no boats to carry them across.
The boatmen had fled to cover as soon as the Indians opened fire on them.

Winfield Scott was among the prisoners together with a brigadier general and two more lieutenant colonels who had been bagged earlier in the day.

Ninety Americans were killed and many more wounded, while a total of nine hundred were captured during the entire action.

Van Rensselaer had lost almost as many troops as Hull had lost at Detroit, and he had nothing to show for it.