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After this there was no doubt as to the value of the American "Provincials," whether in buckskin or in rags. The Major Lewis battalion had held the enemy while the Major Grant Regulars had retreated; and then Captain Bullitt's company had saved these, or they would all have been killed in the woods.
General Forbes issued an order complimenting Washington upon his men, and Captain Bullitt was promoted to be a major.