His infantry, all order lost, fled at the top of their speed, their flight covered by their cavalry, who sacrificed themselves in two or three brilliant charges, right up to the line of pursuers, although suffering terribly from the withering volleys poured into their ranks.
The troops were now formed into heavy columns, and these rapidly marched down the valley, after their flying enemy.

An hour later, the sound of heavy firing was heard in front, and at redoubled speed the troops pressed onward.

When they arrived, however, at the gorge, they found that the last of the fugitives had passed through.

The ground in front was strewn with dead and dying, for as the mass of fugitives had arrived at the gorge, the infantry from above had opened fire upon them.

Several times the frightened throng had recoiled, but at last, impelled by the greater fear of their pursuers behind, they had dashed forward through the fire, only to fall in hundreds in the gorge, crushed beneath the rain of rocks showered down upon them from above..