When the horse came up with them, they turned, received them with a volley and the bayonet, and drove them back.

The Austrians were out at the barriers, looking eagerly on at the conflict.

The women, who were on the look-out too, brought more ammunition to these intrepid deserters, and they engaged and drove back the dragoons several times.

But in these gallant and fruitless combats much time was lost, and a battalion presently came up, and surrounded the brave thirty; when the fate of the poor fellows was decided.

They fought with the fury of despair: not one of them asked for quarter.