The New Englanders were determined to stay and see the end of Burgoyne but a good many of the New York troops went off.
Sickness, too, was increasing.

Above all General Clinton was advancing up the Hudson.

British ships could come up freely as far as Albany and in a few days Clinton might make a formidable advance.

Gates, a timid man, was in a hurry.

He therefore agreed that the British should march from their camp with the honors of war, that the troops should be taken to New England, and from there to England.