Silliman's followers, who had witnessed the defeat of the volunteers and the repulse of Arnold's column, finding themselves upon the point of being assailed at the same time, and on either flank, by the two British detachments, became infected with the prevailing panic, fell into confusion and were driven from the field. Taking a hasty advantage of this lull in the tempest, the British commander put the finishing stroke to his retreat; completing the embarkation of his forces just as the sun approached the horizon, and before Arnold could reduce his men again to military order. The whole hostile fleet thereupon immediately weighed anchor and stood across the Sound for Huntington on Long Island.

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The loss of the invaders during the expedition in killed, wounded and missing, was acknowledged by them to have been nearly two hundred, and is generally supposed to have been more. That of the Americans was never ascertained, but was probably not so great. The latter claimed to have taken more than forty prisoners, and the former fifty, besides many active whigs and committee-men who were conducted to the prisons of New York. The collection of military and hospital stores committed to the flames during this inroad, at Danbury, and in the neighboring towns of Ridgefield and Wilton, in the course of the retreat, was very extensive. The precise amount has never been ascertained, but from the best authority, it con-sisted, among a variety of other things, of the following ar-ticles, viz.: from two to four thousand barrels of pork and beef; more than a thousand barrels of flour; two thousand bushels of grain; three hundred puncheons of rum; fifty pipes of wine; one hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar and mo-lasses; ordinance and hospital furniture; medicines; pioneers', engineers' and carpenters' tools; and arms and ammunition in great variety and abundance; together with a quantity of regimental clothing, and four or five thousand pair of shoes and stockings.