of both parties.

The maid entered the city of Orleans, arrayed in her military garb, and
displaying her consecrated standard; and was received as a celestial
deliverer by all the inhabitants. They now believed themselves
invincible under her influence; and Dunois himself, perceiving such a
mighty alteration both in friends and foes, consented, that the next
convoy, which was expected in a few days, should enter by the side of
Beausse. The convoy approached: no sign of resistance appeared in the
besiegers: the wagons and troops passed without interruption between the
redoubts of the English: a dead silence and astonishment reigned among
those troops, formerly so elated with victory, and so fierce for the
combat.

The earl of Suffolk was in a situation very unusual and extraordinary,
and which might well confound the man of the greatest capacity and
firmest temper. He saw his troops overawed, and strongly impressed
with the idea of a divine influence accompanying the maid. Instead of
banishing these vain terrors by hurry, and action, and war, he waited
till the soldiers should recover from the panic; and he thereby gave
leisure for those prepossessions to sink still deeper into their minds.
The military maxims which are prudent in common cases, deceived him in
these unaccountable events. The English felt their courage daunted and
overwhelmed; and thence inferred a divine vengeance hanging over
them. The French drew the same inference from an inactivity so new and
unexpected. Every circumstance was now reversed in the opinions of
men, on which all depends: the spirit resulting from a long course of
uninterrupted success, was on a sudden transferred from the victors to
the vanquished.

The maid called aloud, that the garrison should remain no longer on the
defensive; and she promised her followers the assistance of Heaven in
attacking those redoubts of the enemy which had so long kept them in
awe, and which they had never hitherto dared to insult. The generals
seconded her ardor: an attack was made on one redoubt, and it proved
successful:[*] all the English who defended the intrenchments were put
to the sword or taken prisoners: and Sir John Talbot himself, who had
drawn together, from the other redoubts, some troops to bring them
relief, durst not appear in the open field against so formidable an
enemy.

* Monstrelet, vol. ii. p. 45.

Nothing, after this success, seemed impossible to the maid and her
enthusi