His army increased at every step.

He fell fiercely upon the invaders, routed them everywhere, drove them from the duchy, and recovered his country and his capital as rapidly as he had lost them.

One fortress only the French maintained.

The intrepid Chevalier De Bayard, _the knight without fear and without reproach_, threw himself into the citadel of Novarra, and held out against all the efforts of Ludovico, awaiting the succor which he was sure would come from his powerful sovereign the King of France..