When their ammunition failed, they fought with the steel, and were shot down or bayoneted where they stood.

The Frenchman was the very last man who was hit.

He received a bullet in the thigh, and fell, and in this state was overpowered, killing the officer who first advanced to seize him.
He and the very few of his comrades who survived were carried back to Neiss, and immediately, as the ringleader, he was brought before a council of war.

He refused all interrogations which were made as to his real name and family.

'What matters who I am ?' said he; 'you have me and will shoot me.