Men were beaten to death behind bits of wall, with the butt-ends of muskets, others had their brains blown out in ravines by the pistols of gendarmes.

In order that terror might impose silence, the soldiers strewed their road with corpses.

One might have followed them by the red trail which they left behind.[*] It was a long butchery.
At every halting-place, a few insurgents were massacred.

Two were killed at Sainte-Roure, three at Ocheres, one at Beage.

When the troops were encamped at Plassans, on the Nice road, it was decided that one more prisoner, the most guilty, should be shot.