I would give all I possess to be recalled, and sent to fight on the frontier." Two hours after the fight, Leigh with his band, of whom none had been killed, although several had received wounds more or less serious, arrived at Chemille.

They had been preceded by many of the peasants, who had already carried the news of the fight, and that the column from Thouars had been delayed for three hours, and had suffered very heavy losses.
"It was all owing, Monsieur Cathelineau," the head of one of the peasant bands said, "to the officer you sent to command us.

He was splendid.

It was to him that everything was due.

He was cutting down the bridge when we came up, and it was by his orders that we felled the trees, and blocked the road, and made a sort of hedge that took them so long to get through.