He set all his troops to work.

Ditches were dug, mounds thrown up, palisades fixed in the earth.

In a few hours the ground wore a new aspect; and the King trusted that he should be able to repel the attack even of a force greatly outnumbering his own.

Nor was it without much appearance of reason that he felt this confidence.

When the morning of the nineteenth of July broke, the bravest men of Lewis's army looked gravely and anxiously on the fortress which had suddenly sprung up to arrest their progress.