They overcame the outposts and approached so close to the bastion that they were already clamouring for faggots and straw to be brought from the town to set fire to the palisades.

But at the cry "Saint George!" the English gathered themselves together, and after a sore and sanguinary fight repulsed the attack of the citizens and free-lances.[970] [Footnote 965: _Journal du siege_, pp.

43, 44.] [Footnote 966: _Ibid._, pp.

78, 79.] [Footnote 967: See the evidence of S.Charles (vol.iii, pp.

116, 117) and certain details in _La chronique de la Pucelle_.] [Footnote 968: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.