horseback, and fairly compelled him to retreat.[734] His scattered troops caught sight of the dragon on his standard,[735] and discovering that he was still alive, rallied enough to enable him to retreat in good order. Henry gathered up the remnants of the royal body-guard--the only mounted division of the army--and with them made a gallant effort to retrieve the day; but the horsemen charged in vain against the English shield-wall, and falling back with shattered spears and wounded horses they were compelled to fling away their accoutrements and escape as best they could.[736] Three days elapsed before Henry himself could rejoin his father at Carlisle.[737] Eleven hundred Scots were said to have been slain in the battle or caught in their flight through the woods and marshes and there despatched.[738] Out of two hundred armed knights only nineteen carried their mail-coats home again;[739] such of the rest as escaped at all escaped only with their lives; and the field was so strewn with baggage, provisions and arms, left behind by the fugitives, that the victors gave it the nickname of Baggamore.[740] The enthusiasm which had carried the Yorkshiremen through the hour of danger carried them also through the temptation of the hour of triumph. They sullied their victory by no attempt at pursuit or retaliation, but simply returned as they had come, in solemn procession, and having restored the holy banners to their several places with joy and thanksgiving, went quietly back every man to his own home.[741] Some three months later the garrison of Carham, having salted their last horse save one, were driven to surrender; but their stubborn defence had won them the right to march out free with the honours of war, and all that David gained was the satisfaction of razing the empty fortress.[742] [724] Ric. Hexh. (Raine), pp. 90, 91. Joh. Hexh. (_ibid._), p. 119. Cf. the description of the Milanese _carroccio_--“quod apud nos _standard_ dicitur” as the German writer remarks--in 1162 (_Ep. Burchard. Notar. Imp. de Excidio Mediolan._, in Muratori, _Rer. Ital. Scriptt._, vol. vi. p. 917). [725] On Ralf see Dixon and Raine, _Fasti Eborac._, vol. i. p. 168. [726] So says Æthelred of Rievaux (_De Bello Standardi_, Twysden, _X. Scriptt._, cols. 338, 339), giving a charming portrait of Walter and a vivid picture of the scene. Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 7 (Arnold, p. 262), attributes the speech to Bishop Ralf. [727] “The the king adde beteht Euorwic.” Eng. Chron. a. 1138. [728] Æthelred Riev., _De Bello Standardi_ (as above), cols. 339–342. [729] Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 9 (Arnold, p. 263).