On Champagny alone seemed devolved an the labor and all the responsibility.

He did his duty well, but he was but one man.

Alone, with a heart full of anxiety, he wandered up and down all the night.

With his own hands, assisted only by a few citizens and his own servants, he planted all the cannon with which they were provided, in the "Fencing Court," at a point where the battery might tell upon the castle.

Unfortunately, the troops from Brussels had brought no artillery with them, and the means of defence against the strongest fortress in Europe were meagre indeed.