The gallant manner in which he brought off the remains of Mackay's division was long remembered with grateful admiration by the British camp fires.

The ground where the conflict had raged was piled with corpses; and those who buried the slain remarked that almost all the wounds had been given in close fighting by the sword or the bayonet.
It was said that William so far forgot his wonted stoicism as to utter a passionate exclamation at the way in which the English regiments had been sacrificed.

Soon, however, he recovered his equanimity, and determined to fall back.

It was high time; for the French army was every moment becoming stronger, as the regiments commanded by Boufflers came up in rapid succession.

The allied army returned to Lambeque unpursued and in unbroken order.