94 _et seq._] [Footnote 1066: They were employed chiefly in carrying munitions of war.

_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

292.] [Footnote 1067: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

5.] The French assembled before the entrenchments had the air of an immense crowd of idlers looking on while a few men-at-arms attempted an escalade.

Notwithstanding the size of the army, for a long while the assault resolved itself into a series of single combats.