However, by showing admirable diligence, doubling both his vessels and his provisions, he found sufficient to embark the whole." [_Siege de La Rochelle.

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76.] By this time the king's troops, in considerable numbers, had arrived in the island without the English being able to prevent their disembarkation; the enemy therefore took the resolution of setting sail, in spite of the entreaties which the Duke of Soubise sent them on the part of the Rochellese, those latter promising great assistance in men and provisions, more than they could afford.

To satisfy them, the Duke of Buckingham determined to deliver a general assault before he departed.
The assault was delivered on the 5th and 6th of November, and everywhere repulsed, exhausted as the besieged were.