Battle Favors the Americans

Brigadier General Enoch Poor's Brigade drove the British out of the woods, and American troops made bolder attacks into the open field. The British fell back further, leaving behind two valuable cannons. Continentals tried to haul those guns off the field, but they proved too heavy to move without horses. Men and boys fought hand-to-hand to take back the guns. A detachment of Massachusetts Continental troops was then ordered to make a rapid advance and charge with the bayonet, and the enemy retreated in confusion as the Americans pursued across a field literally covered with dead and wounded.

Stillwater, New York · United States