The garrison immediately rushed from behind their ramparts united with their approaching friends and pursued the fugitives.
The royalists, in their dismay, attempted to cross the river on the fragile ice.

It broke beneath the enormous weight, and thousands perished in the cold stream.

The remainder of this great host were almost to a man either slain or taken captive.

Their whole camp and baggage fell into the hands of the conquerors.

This wonderful victory, achieved by the energies of Mstislaf, has given him a name in Russian annals as one of the most renowned and brave of the princes of the empire.
George, prince of Novgorod, son of Andre, escaped from the carnage of that ensanguined field, and overwhelmed with shame, returned to his father in Moscow.