After the Battle

The Americans

• Sustained about 1,200 losses
• Retreated to Chester
• Marched through Darby to Germantown
• Wintered at Valley Forge

The British

• Sustained as many as 2,000 losses
• Remained in the area for five days
• Raided the countryside
• Buried the dead
• Wintered in Philadelphia

"This has been a day of Great Confusion to many in this city; . . . part of Washington’s Army has been routed, and have been seen coming into Town in Great Numbers; the perticulars of the Battle, I have not attended to, the slain is said to be very numberous. - hundreds of their muskets laying in the road, which those that made off have thrown down."

Elizabeth Drinker
September 12, 1777