For our part of the onfall, the English had made but a feigned attack on the mill, wherefore the bale-fires were lit, to our undoing.

This was the ruse de guerre of the accursed cordelier, Brother Thomas.

For the rest, the Maid had led on a band to attack the gate St.Honore, with Gaucourt in her company, a knight that had no great love either of her or of a desperate onslaught.

But D'Alencon, whom she loved as a brother, was commanded to take another band, and wait behind a butte or knowe, out of danger of arrow-shot.

The Maid had stormed all day at her gate, had taken the boulevard without, and burst open and burned the outer port, and crossed the dry ditch.