Seven thousand infantry, for the most part new levies, had been placed here by Coligny; and these received the royal army with great determination.

Not only were the assaults upon the walls repulsed, with heavy loss; but the garrison made many sallies and, after wasting a month before the town, Anjou, despairing of its capture, drew off the army, which had suffered heavier losses here than it had done in the battle of Jarnac.
He then besieged Saint Jean d'Angely, where the garrison, commanded by Count Montgomery, also repulsed all attacks.

Angouleme was attacked with an equal want of success; but Mucidan, a town to the southwest of Perigueux, was captured.

The attack upon it, however, cost the life of De Brissac, one of his best officers--a loss which Anjou avenged by the murder, in cold blood, of the garrison; which surrendered on condition that life and property should be spared.
As a set off to the success of the Huguenots, they suffered a heavy blow in the death of the gallant D'Andelot, the Admiral's brother--an officer of the highest ability, who had, before the outbreak of the troubles, occupied the rank of colonel general of the French infantry.

His death was attributed by both parties to poison, believed to have been administered by an emissary of Catherine de Medici.