As Henri rushed through them, some of the soldiers
observed his peculiar costume and hallaoed out, "fire upon the red
scarf," (tirez sur le mouchoir rouge,) but the confusion was too great
to allow of this friendly piece of advice being followed, or else the
musketeers were bad marksmen, for Henri went safely through the trench,
though many of his men were wounded in following him..
Cathelineau's men soon followed, as did also Cathelineau himself; the
last man who leapt into the trenches was de Lescure; but he also got
safely through them--not above twenty-five or thirty of those who had
forced their way into the camp, fell; but above three hundred of those
who had only attempted it, were left dead or wounded in the trenches.
And now the retreat commenced, and Cathelineau found it impossible to
accomplish it with anything like order; the three leaders endeavoured
to make the men conceive that they had been entirely successful in all
which it had been thought desirable to accomplish, but they had seen too
much bloodshed to be deceived--they were completely dismayed and
disheartened, and returned back towards Montreuil, almost quicker than
they had come.
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