Women and children mounted to roof and window, whence they hurled, not only tiles and chimney pots, but tables, ponderous chairs, and other bulky articles, upon the heads of the assailants, while such citizens as had used all their bullets, loaded their pieces with the silver buttons from their doublets, or twisted gold and silver coins with their teeth into ammunition.

With a population so resolute, the four thousand invaders, however audacious, soon found themselves swallowed up.
The city had closed over them like water, and within an hour nearly a third of their whole number had been slain.

Very few of the burghers had perished, and fresh numbers were constantly advancing to the attack.

The Frenchmen, blinded, staggering, beaten, attempted to retreat.

Many threw themselves from the fortifications into the moat.