Though they fell fast, a captain climbed up the barrier.

Officers and men followed him.

They stood a moment on the crest as if to poise themselves, and then leaped down among the French, where they were killed.

Those who stood on the other side were swept by a hurricane of fire, and at last they yielded slowly.
Robert saw all, and he was seized with a great horror.

The army was not crashing over everything.