The next morning Charlie was placed in a tent, in which lay several officers who had been wounded, either the night before or by shots from the town.

He learned with great pleasure, upon questioning the doctor, that the Swedes had got off safely in the darkness.

Some eight or ten men only had straggled and been made prisoners, and not more than twenty had been left dead on the field.

He had the satisfaction, therefore, of knowing that the defence made by his own pikemen had been the means of saving the whole force.

In other respects he had nothing to complain of, for he was well attended to, and received the same treatment as the Russians.
For another ten days the roar of the cannon continued, some seventy guns keeping up an incessant fire on the town.