293.] The sun was going down; and since morning the French had been wearing themselves out in a vain attack upon the palisades of the bulwark.

My Lord the Bastard, seeing his men tired and night coming on, and afraid doubtless of the English of the Saint-Laurent-des-Orgerils Camp, resolved to lead the army back to Orleans.

He had the retreat sounded.
The trumpet was already summoning the combatants to Le Portereau.[1079] The Maid came to him and asked him to wait a little.
[Footnote 1079: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

216 (Jean d'Aulon's evidence), p.

25; (evidence of J.Luillier).