Straightway Sire d'Aulon went down into the ditch and protecting himself with his shield, which sheltered him from the stones fired from the cannon, advanced towards the rampart.[1084] [Footnote 1084: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

216.] After a quarter of an hour, the Maid, having offered a short prayer, returned to the men-at-arms and said to them: "The English are exhausted.

Bring up the ladders."[1085] [Footnote 1085: _Journal du siege_, p.

86.] It was true.

They had so little powder that their last volley fired in an insufficient charge carried no further than a stone thrown by hand.[1086] Nothing but fragments of weapons remained to them.