Note 164 — Chapter XI · The Loss of Philadelphia, and the Capture of Burgoyne.

A British officer wrote: “In this action the Americans, though repulsed, showed themselves a formidable adversary, capable of charging with resolution and retreating in good order. The hope, therefore, of any action with them as decisive, and likely to put a speedy termination to the war, was exceedingly abated.”—Civil War in America, Vol. I., p. 269.