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It was the abject cowardice of these troops, which gave
so wonderful a career of success to the Vendeans; it was their
diabolical cruelty which has made the sufferings of the royalists more
notorious even than their bravery.
De Lescure, Larochejaquelin, and Adolphe Denot led their men further
along the road to the point at which Henri had been standing when he
first saw the crowd of royalists coming towards him on the former
evening, and from thence they also got into the encampment. As has been
said, they had no powder; the men who commenced the assault were armed
with muskets and bayonets, but the greater number of the assailants had
no bayonets at all, and many of them nothing but sticks; still they
forced their way into the centre of the camp; here a very strong
opposition was made to them; the republicans were so well armed, that
the royalists were unable to disperse them when any number of them made
a stand together; when they moved from their ground, however, the
Vendeans uniformly succeeded in driving them before them.


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