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September 22, 2014 Drummond broke up the British encampment on the night of the 21st of September, and retired behind Chippewa Creek. The British refused to accept the defeat, Gen. De Watteville, writing two days after the battle, spoke of the "repulse of the Americans at every point;" and Gen. Drummond, in a later dispatch, also spoke of a "repulse of an American army of 5,000 men by an inconsiderable number of British troops." The lesson would seem to be never tell the truth if higher command is not around to view the results.
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