Your reinforcement of a hundred men, all armed with muskets, will be a very welcome one; for they will hardly suspect that many of us have firearms.

However we had, before your arrival, three hundred who have so armed themselves, through captures at Saint Florent and Chemille." He now ordered the bell to be rung and, as soon as its notes pealed out, started; followed at once by the crowd in the village, without any sort of order or regularity.

Jean and Leigh continued to ride with Monsieur de la Verrie and his nephew.
After some hours' marching, at two o'clock in the afternoon they approached Chollet.

On the way they received considerable reinforcements, from the villages they passed through.

As soon as they approached the town they saw the dragoons pouring out, followed by three or four hundred National Guards.
The Vendeans now fell into some sort of order.