five o'clock in the evening
The few who retained life and strength , after the first second of amazement , rushed from the post of peril , leaped wildly upon the bank , and , communicating their terror to the rest of the column , the whole took flight and buried itself in the neighboring woods ; while such a shout went up to heaven from the conquerors as had never been heard on that wild shore before . Well might the Americans exult , for the successful resistance was against ten times their own number . The British loss was one hundred and fifty . That hot day , August 2 , 1813 , at five o'clock in the evening , George Croghan by one cannon-shot immortalized himself . Fernando Stevens had been under a terrible strain all the day and the night before , and no sooner was the enemy gone , than he sank exhausted on the ground with scores of others . Shortly after the gallant and successful defence of Fort Stephenson , Fernando , with a detached squad of twenty riflemen , joined General Harrison , and was subsequently assigned to the regiment of Colonel Richard M. Johnson , whose Kentuckians won the battle of the Thames . After his signal defeat at Fort Stephenson , Proctor with his British troops returned to Malden by water , while Tecumseh with his followers passed over by land , round the head of Lake Erie , and joined him at that point .