And for their encouragement they had neither the _carmagnoles_ of Barrere, nor the songs of Marie-Joseph Chenier, nor the bulletins of _la grande armee_.

Why did these captains, these men-at-arms go and fight in one place rather than in another seems to be a natural question....
Because they wanted goods.
[Footnote 97: Jean Chartier, _Chronique de Charles VII_, vol.i, p.
121.] This perpetual warfare was not sanguinary.

During what was described as Jeanne d'Arc's mission, that is from Orleans to Compiegne, the French lost barely a few hundred men.

The English suffered much more heavily, because they were the fugitives, and in a rout it was the custom for the conquerors to kill all those who were not worth holding to ransom.

But battles were rare, and so consequently were defeats, and the number of the combatants was small.