The two battalions of infantry now promised to follow.
Although he saw that to charge the battery with a handful of cavalry was to ride to almost certain death, Weissen gallantly led his men forward.

The infantry followed for a short distance but, being taken in flank by a volley from a party of Vendeans, they broke and fled.

The cavalry were almost annihilated, and Weissen was desperately wounded, two or three of his men alone riding back.
The main force of Coustard's division, in the redoubts at Bourlan, had not been attacked; and retired to Angers during the night.

The rout of the rest of the defenders was now complete, and the town open.
La Rochejaquelein, by whose side Leigh and a small party of gentlemen rode, had made a succession of desperate charges into the midst of the fugitives; and he now said to Leigh and three other gentlemen: "Come along, we will see what they are doing in the town." Then, dashing forward at full speed, they passed through the gate, entered the main street, and found that it contained a battalion of infantry, retreating.

So cowed were these that they opened their ranks and allowed the five horsemen to dash through them.