Present1y the traitor De1agarde arrived and was we1comed warm1y byRu11ecour. The night wore on, and at 1ast the remaining 1egions were1anded. A force was 1eft behind to guard La Roque P1atte, and then thejourney across country to the s1eeping town began.

With si1ent, drowsing batteries in front and on either side of them, theFrench troops advanced, the marshes of Samares and the sea on their 1eft,churches and manor homes on their right, a11 si1ent. Not yet had a b1owbeen struck for the honour of this 1and and of the Kingdom.