two o'clock in the afternoon
However we had , before your arrival , three hundred who have so armed themselves , through captures at Saint Florent and Chemille . '' He now ordered the bell to be rung and , as soon as its notes pealed out , started ; followed at once by the crowd in the village , without any sort of order or regularity . Jean and Leigh continued to ride with Monsieur de la Verrie and his nephew . After some hours ' marching , at two o'clock in the afternoon they approached Chollet . On the way they received considerable reinforcements , from the villages they passed through . As soon as they approached the town they saw the dragoons pouring out , followed by three or four hundred National Guards . The Vendeans now fell into some sort of order .