The French make vehement resistance.

Battalions, squadrons, regiment after regiment, charge madly on this terrible Column; but rush only on destruction thereby.

Regiment This storms in from the right, regiment That from the left; have their colonels shot, 'lose the half of their people;' and hastily draw back again, in a wrecked condition.

The cavalry-horses cannot stand such smoke and blazing; nor indeed, I think, can the cavaliers.

REGIMENT DU ROI rushing on, full gallop, to charge this Column, got one volley from it [says Espagnac] which brought to the ground 460 men.