The city of Strasbourg gave him some cannon, four hundred cavalry, and eight hundred infantry; Louis XI.

lent him some money; and Rend before long found himself in a position to raise a small army and retake Epinal, Saint-Did, Vaudemont, and the majority of the small towns in Lorraine.
He then went and laid siege to Nancy.

The Duke of Burgundy had left there as governor John de Rubemprd, lord of Bievres, with a feeble garrison, which numbered amongst its ranks three hundred English, picked men.

Sire de Bievres sent message after message to Charles, who did not even reply to him.

The town was short of provisions; the garrison was dispirited; and the commander of the English was killed.