He drives him to the side.

Ah, by Our Lady, his sword is through him! They cry for mercy.

Down goes the red cross, and up springs Simon with the scarlet roses!" The death of the Genoese leader did indeed bring the resistance to an end.

Amid a thunder of cheering from cog and from galleys the forked pennon fluttered upon the forecastle, and the galley, sweeping round, came slowly back, as the slaves who rowed it learned the wishes of their new masters.
The two knights had come aboard the cog, and the grapplings having been thrown off, the three vessels now moved abreast through all the storm and rush of the fight Alleyne had been aware of the voice of Goodwin Hawtayne, the master-shipman, with his constant "Hale the bowline! Veer the sheet!" and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back.

Now the cog's head was turned Francewards, and the shipman walked the deck, a peaceful master-mariner once more.
"There is sad scath done to the cog, Sir Nigel," said he.