midnight
The loss of the British at Lundy 's Lane was eighty-five killed , five hundred and fifty-five wounded and two hundred and fifty-four missing . The American loss in killed , wounded and missing was eight hundred and sixty . General Ripley used every exertion to strengthen Fort Erie before the enemy should arrive . At midnight during the battle of Lundy 's Lane , Fernando Stevens and about fifty sharpshooters became separated from the American army in the darkness , and at dawn , when the retreat began to Fort Erie , they found themselves cut off by the enemy . Three or four hundred British grenadiers were sent in pursuit of them , and they continued to retreat skirmishing along the way for three days , until they fell in with some New York militia hurrying to the southern part of the State . There was nothing better than to go with them . Fernando was chosen captain of the company , and recruits soon swelled his numbers to a hundred .