seven
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Fort d'Issy and the great battery at Montretout , seconded by Mont Valerien , for the last ten days had been battering the rampart at the Point-du-Jour , as a consequence of which the Saint-Cloud gate was no longer tenable and an assault had been ordered for the following morning , the 22d ; but someone who chanced to pass that way at about five o'clock perceived that the gate was unprotected and immediately notified the guards in the trenches , who were not more than fifty yards away . Two companies of the 37th regiment of regulars were the first to enter the city , and were quickly followed by the entire 4th corps under General Douay . All night long the troops were pouring in in an uninterrupted stream . At seven o'clock Verge 's division marched down to the bridge at Grenelle , crossed , and pushed on to the Trocadero . At nine General Clinchamp was master of Passy and la Muette . At three o'clock in the morning the 1st corps had pitched its tents in the Bois de Boulogne , while at about the same hour Bruat 's division was passing the Seine to seize the Sevres gate and facilitate the movement of the 2d Corps , General de Cissey 's , which occupied the district of Grenelle an hour later . The Versailles army , therefore , on the morning of the 22d , was master of the Trocadero and the Chateau of la Muette on the right bank , and of Grenelle on the left ; and great was the rage and consternation that prevailed among the Communists , who were already accusing one another of treason , frantic at the thought of their inevitable defeat .