Thus the six hundred English, their strength and their weapons alike exhausted, found themselves assailed both in front and in the rear.

In a crafty and terrible manner they were also attacked from beneath.

The people of Orleans had loaded a great barge with pitch, tow, faggots, horse-bones, old shoes, resin, sulphur, ninety-eight pounds of olive oil and such other materials as might easily take fire and smoke.

They had steered it under the wooden bridge, thrown by the enemy from Les Tourelles to the bulwark: they had anchored the barge there and set fire to its cargo.

The fire from the barge had caught the bridge just when the English were retreating.