A deadly apathy in regard to the war seems to have fallen upon many parts of the country.

The Bay now in control of the French fleet was quite safe for unarmed ships.

Half the Americans and some of the French embarked and the rest continued on foot.

There was need of haste, and the troops marched on to Baltimore and beyond at the rate of twenty miles a day, over roads often bad and across rivers sometimes unbridged.

At Baltimore some further regiments were taken on board transports and most of them made the final stages of the journey by water.