The fighting was somewhat hard.

There were slain and wounded; prisoners were taken on both sides; and the English lost a banner.[947] Beneath the deserted[948] watch of Saint-Jean-le-Blanc the barges passed unprotected.

Between l'Ile-aux-Boeufs and the Islet of Les Martinets they turned starboard, to go down again, following the right bank, under l'Ile-aux-Toiles, as far as La Tour Neuve, the base of which was washed by the Loire, at the south-eastern corner of the town.

Then they took shelter in the moat near the Burgundian Gate.[949] [Footnote 945: _Journal du siege_, pp.

75, 76.] [Footnote 946: Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p.