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nglish leaders, Sir John Fastolf, Sir Richard Gethyn, Bailie of Evreux, Sir Simon Morhier, Provost of Paris, place themselves in good battle array. With their wagons they make a long narrow enclosure in the plain. There they entrench their horsemen, posting the archers in front, behind stakes planted in the ground with their points inclined towards the enemy.[553] Seeing these preparations, the Constable of Scotland loses patience and leads his four hundred horsemen in a rush upon the stakes, where the horses' legs are broken.[554] The English, discovering that it is only a small company they have to deal with, bring out their cavalry and charge with such force that they overthrow the French and slay three hundred. Meanwhile the men of Auvergne had reached Rouvray and were scouring the village, draining the cellars. The Bastard left them and came to the help of the Scots with four hundred fighting men. But he was wounded in the foot, and in great danger of being taken.[555] [Footnote 551: _Journal du siege_, pp. 38, 39. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 267, 268. _Mistere du siege_, line 8867. Dom Plancher, _Histoire de Bourgogne_, vol. iv, p. 127.] [Footnote 552: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 312. _Journal du siege_, p. 43. Chastellain, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, vol. ii, p. 164.] [Footnote 553: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 311. _Journal du siege_, p. 39. _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 232. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 267, 268. Perceval de Cagny, pp. 137, 139.] [Footnote 554: _Journal du siege_, pp. 40, 41.] [Footnote 555: _Ibid._, p. 43. _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 232.] There fell in this combat Lord William Stuart and his brother, the Lords of Verduzan, of Chateaubrun, of Rochechouart, Jean Chabot with many others of high nobility and great valour.[556] The English, not yet satiated with slaughter, scattered in pursuit of the fugitives. La Hire and Poton, beholding the enemy's standards dispersed over the plain, gathered together as many men as they could, between sixty and eighty, and threw themselves on a small part of the English force, which they overcame. If at this juncture the rest of the French had rallied they might have saved the honour and advantage of the day.[557] But the Count of Clermont, who had not attempted to come to the aid of the Bastard and the Constable of Scotland, displayed his unfailing cowardice to the end. Having seen them all slain, he returned with his army to Orleans,
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