But how?
There were only thirty-six men at my disposal.

The other burghers were in positions closer to the enemy, and I could not withdraw them without exposing them too seriously to the bullets of the English.

There was nothing for it, but that I with my thirty-six burghers should attack the force which threatened us.
We rushed down the mountain and jumping on our horses, galloped against the enemy.

When we arrived at the precipice which falls sheer from the mountain, the English were already so near that our only course was to charge them.
In front of us there was a plain which extended for some twelve hundred paces to the foot of an abrupt rise in the ground.

This we fortunately reached before the English, although we were exposed all the way to the fire of their guns.