 Arnold then led many of the remaining smaller craft into a small bay on the Vermont shore now named Arnold 's Bay 2 miles south of Buttonmold Bay , where the waters were too shallow for the larger British vessels to follow . These boats were then run aground , stripped , and set on fire , with their flags still flying . Arnold , the last to land , personally torched his flagship Congress . The surviving ships ' crews , numbering about 200 , then made their way overland to Crown Point , narrowly escaping an Indian ambush . There they found Trumbull , New York , Enterprise , and Revenge , all of which had escaped the British fleet , as well as Liberty , which had just arrived with supplies from Ticonderoga . 
