Here and there small bodies stood and fought desperately, but being unsupported were overcome and slain.
The king with his knights fought with desperate bravery, spurring hither and thither and charging furiously among the English men-at-arms.

Three times Bruce was unhorsed and as often remounted by Sir Simon Fraser.

Once he was so entirely cut off from his companions by the desperation with which he had charged into the midst of the English, that he was surrounded, struck from his horse, and taken prisoner.
"The king is taken!" Archie Forbes shouted; "ride in, my lords, and rescue him." Most of the Scotch knights were so hardly pressed that they could do nothing to aid the king; but Christopher Seaton joined Archie, and the two knights charged into the midst of the throng of English and cut their way to Bruce.

Sir Philip Mowbray, who was beside the captured monarch, was overthrown, and several others cut down.
Bruce leapt into his saddle again and the three for a time kept at bay the circle of foemen; but such a conflict could have but one end.

Archie Forbes vied with the king in the strength and power of his blows, and many of his opponents went down before him.