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Dieskau was afterwards taken to England , and remained for some years at Bath , after which he returned to Paris . He never , however , recovered from his numerous wounds , and died a few years later . He always spoke in the highest terms of the kindness he had received from the colonial officers . Of the provincial soldiers he said that , in the morning they fought like boys , about noon like men , and in the afternoon like devils . The English loss in killed , wounded , and missing was two hundred and sixty-two , for the most part killed in the ambush in the morning . The French , according to their own account , lost two hundred and twenty-eight , but it probably exceeded four hundred , the principal portion of whom were regulars , for the Indians and Canadians kept themselves so well under cover that they and the provincials , behind their logs , were able to inflict but little loss on each other . Had Johnson followed up his success , he might have reached South Bay before the French , in which case the whole of Dieskau 's column must have fallen into his hands ; nor did he press forward against Ticonderoga , which he might easily have captured .