At the same time, from the walls of the town and the bulwark of La Belle Croix cannon balls rained down upon Les Tourelles.[1093] Montargis and Rifflart cast forth stones. Maitre Guillaume Duisy's new cannon, from the Chesneau postern, hurled forth balls weighing one hundred and twenty pounds.[1094] Les Tourelles were attacked from the bridge side. Across the arch broken by the English a narrow footway was thrown, and Messire Nicole de Giresme, a knight in holy orders, was the first to pass over.[1095] Those who followed him set fire to the palisade which blocked the approach to the fort on that side. Thus the six hundred English, their strength and their weapons alike exhausted, found themselves assailed both in front and in the rear. In a crafty and terrible manner they were also attacked from beneath. The people of Orleans had loaded a great barge with pitch, tow, faggots, horse-bones, old shoes, resin, sulphur, ninety-eight pounds of olive oil and such other materials as might easily take fire and smoke. They had steered it under the wooden bridge, thrown by the enemy from Les Tourelles to the bulwark: they had anchored the barge there and set fire to its cargo. The fire from the barge had caught the bridge just when the English were retreating. Through smoke and flames the six hundred passed over the burning platform. At length it came to the turn of William Glasdale, Lord Poynings and Lord Moleyns, who with thirty or forty captains, were the last to leave the lost bulwark; but when they set foot on the bridge, its beams, reduced to charcoal, crumbled beneath them, and they all with the Chandos standard were engulfed in the Loire.[1096] [Footnote 1093: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 293, 294. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 31.] [Footnote 1094: _Journal du siege_, p. 17. Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, p. 12.] [Footnote 1095: _Journal du siege_, p. 87. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 294. _Chronique de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 294.] [Footnote 1096: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 9, 25, 80. _Chronique de l'etablissement de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 294. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 294. _Journal du siege_, pp. 87, 88. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 78. Perceval de Cagny, p. 145. Eberhard Windecke, p. 173. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 321. Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 31 _et seq._] Jeanne moved to pity wept over the soul of Glassidas and over the souls of those drowned with him.[1097] The captains, who were with her, likewise grieved over the death of these valiant men, reflecting that they had done the French a great wrong by being drowned, for their ransom would have brought great riches.[1098] [Footnote 1097: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 110 (Pasquerel's evidence).] [Footnote 1098: _Journal du siege_, p. 87.] Having escaped from the French on the bulwark, across the burning planks the six hundred were set upon by the French on the bridge. Four hundred were slain, the others taken. The day had cost the people of Orleans a hundred men.[1099]