Late in the Battle of Eutaw Springs, American soldiers pushed forward into the British camp and came close to victory, but the discipline that had held their ranks together through hours of hard fighting collapsed when the ragged troops stopped to loot British tents. Loyalist troops barricaded in a nearby two-story brick plantation house then poured musket fire into the Americans below. As the American advance stalled before this strongpoint, the British counterattacked and drove the Americans back out of their camp. With his soldiers exhausted and low on ammunition, Greene retreated and left the bloody field in Stewart's hands.