They finally stormed it, "in so determined a manner," reported the enemy, "that our artillery men were bayoneted in the act of loading and the muzzles of the enemy's guns were advanced within a few yards of ours." Back and forth flowed the tide of battle in bloody waves, until midnight.

Then sullenly and in good order the Americans retired three miles to camp at Chippawa.

Next day the enemy resumed the position and held it unattacked.
It is fair to call Lundy's Lane a drawn battle.

The casualties were something more than eight hundred for each side, and the troops engaged were about twenty-five hundred Americans and a like number of British.
Both the shattered columns soon retired behind strong defenses.

General Drummond led the British troops into camp at Niagara Falls, and General Ripley, in temporary command of the American brigades, Scott and Brown having been wounded, occupied the unfinished works of Fort Erie, on the Canadian side, just where the waters of Lake Erie enter the Niagara River.
The British determined to bombard these walls and intrenchments with heavy guns and then carry them by infantry assault.