There was scarcely any one in the cottages: the road was covered with poor wretches, who, fainting with fatigue, were sleeping in the mud, without heeding the pelting rain.

The rout of Le Mans cost the lives of fifteen thousand persons.

The greatest part were not killed in the battle; many were crushed to death in the streets of Le Mans; others, wounded and sick, remained in the houses, and were massacred.

They died in the ditches and the fields: a great number fled on the road to Alencon, were there taken, and conducted to the scaffold.
* * * * * "Such was the deplorable defeat of Le Mans, where the Vendeean army received a mortal blow: it was an inevitable fatality.

The day that they quitted the left bank of the Loire, with a nation of women, children, and old people, to seek an asylum in a country unknown, without being aware what route they should take, at the beginning of winter, it was easy to foretell that we should conclude by this terrible catastrophe.
The greatest glory that our generals and soldiers can claim is that they retarded its accomplishment so long.
"The unfortunate and intrepid Henri did not abandon his cause till not a hope was left; and even at the last he lingered at Le Mans, and fought desperately in the Place de l'Eperon, establishing a battery of cannon which long kept the enemy at bay.