Grasping the colonel's hand in gladness, Washington answered:
"Away, my dear colonel, and bring up the troops. The day is our own!"
When Cornwallis awoke in the early dawn, he found that his "fox" had escaped.
"That is just what I feared," said Sir William Erskine.
"Where can he have gone?" Cornwallis inquired, almost bewildered by the unexpected revelation.
Just then booming cannon in the distance explained.
"There!" exclaimed Sir William; "There is Washington now, cutting up our troops!"
"Capturing our stores at Brunswick!" shouted Cornwallis in reply, as he took in the situation, and thought what a haul the rebel general would make in capturing the seventy thousand pounds in money, and the vast quantity of arms, ammunition, and stores at Brunswick.
Almost franticly he dashed about to hurry his Army away to the latter place, where he arrived to find everything safe, and himself outwitted again.
The battle of Princeton, though short, was a costly one to the Americans. One general, two colonels, one major, and three captains were killed. From twenty to thirty others were killed and wounded. The British lost one hundred killed and wounded, and three hundred prisoners.