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, where he arrived well on into the night of the 12th of February.[558] There followed him with their troops in disorder, the Baron La Tour-d'Auvergne, the Viscount of Thouars, the Marshal de Boussac, the Lord of Gravelle and the Bastard, who with the greatest difficulty kept in the saddle. Jamet du Tillay, La Hire, and Poton came last, watching to see that the English did not complete their discomfiture by falling upon them from the forts.[559] [Footnote 556: _Journal du siege_, p. 43. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 269. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 313.] [Footnote 557: _Journal du siege_, p. 42. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 63.] [Footnote 558: _Journal du siege_, p. 44.] [Footnote 559: _Ibid._, pp. 43, 44.] Because the Lenten fast was beginning, the victuals which Sir John Fastolf was bringing from Paris to the English round Orleans, consisted largely of red herrings, which had suffered during the battle from the casks containing them having been broken in. To honour the French for having discomfited so many natives of Dieppe the delighted English merrily named the combat the Battle of the Herrings.[560] [Footnote 560: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 230-233. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 313. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. ii, p. 62. Symphorien Guyon, _Histoire de la ville d'Orleans_, vol. ii, p. 195. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. 37.]